here's another cheese eater who likes those forks. Very nice! Would go very well on that beautiful frame.
All those cracking jokes about cracking manitou frames really cracked me up, but now for a serious question; which year did manitou make the hardtail frame with the more open dropouts? I remember a friend of mine broke 3 of them...
I reckon the frame you are talking about is a 1993/1994.......mine is going to be a road bike anyway so doubt it will fal to bits..........a 4 inch kerb is all it will see I reckon