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I always think of the Litespeed Kitsuma
[http://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeSpecs.aspx?year=2001&brand=Litespeed&model=Kitsuma+(02)](http://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeSpecs.aspx?year=2001&brand=Litespeed&model=Kitsuma+\(02\))
when I see a bike like this. The Kitsuma was a freeride hardtail that was
titanium. It was a very badass bike that went for $4-5K at the time. However,
it only was around a season or so simply because the kind of riders that would
buy a freeride hardtail would not spend that kind of dough on bike they would
be beating the crap out of. I believe now fifteen years later, the same
applies here.
June 15, 2016, 8 a.m. - Raymond Epstein
#!markdown I always think of the Litespeed Kitsuma [http://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeSpecs.aspx?year=2001&brand=Litespeed&model=Kitsuma+(02)](http://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeSpecs.aspx?year=2001&brand=Litespeed&model=Kitsuma+\(02\)) when I see a bike like this. The Kitsuma was a freeride hardtail that was titanium. It was a very badass bike that went for $4-5K at the time. However, it only was around a season or so simply because the kind of riders that would buy a freeride hardtail would not spend that kind of dough on bike they would be beating the crap out of. I believe now fifteen years later, the same applies here.