Mombat.org is "404 Not Found"
Anyone know what is going on?
Anyone know what is going on?
What happened to mombat?
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Mombat.org is "404 Not Found"
Anyone know what is going on?
Anyone know what is going on?
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Jeff died last year. Maybe his family isn't able to continue with the site.
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I emailed Wes at FFB a couple of days ago after I first noticed mombat was down. He said that their web hosting company went out of business and without notice took down every site they hosted including: mombat, ffb, and mt goat. Hopefully they have a backup copy of the site and get back online soon!
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Not good, not good.
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Makes me realize that I should make a backup copy of my web sites.
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Thanks for this update.
And now I have a timeline question. I was double checking when Smokes came out?
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I think 1992 (maybe a year earlier).
I bought a KHS in '93 that had the Smoke/Dart combo. The Dart came out after the Smoke, so the Smoke has to be at least a year earlier.
I bought a KHS in '93 that had the Smoke/Dart combo. The Dart came out after the Smoke, so the Smoke has to be at least a year earlier.
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Yay. Perfect. Thanks.
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Crap, not good one bit. That stupid pink '85 Stumpy Team is one of my faves to drool over, I guess that can be kissed goodbye now.
I was meaning to post the Goat water bottle and two Goat shirts I bought from Jeff years back after his passing, what a horrible thread to have to even begin with.
As for Smokes, pretty sure it was either late 90 or 91 when those came out. Couldn't stand that Dart and still can't. Just last week I was thinking about Tomac riding the Farmer John's, how in the world did that guy make the bike stay upright with those things?!
I was meaning to post the Goat water bottle and two Goat shirts I bought from Jeff years back after his passing, what a horrible thread to have to even begin with.
As for Smokes, pretty sure it was either late 90 or 91 when those came out. Couldn't stand that Dart and still can't. Just last week I was thinking about Tomac riding the Farmer John's, how in the world did that guy make the bike stay upright with those things?!
Here's your pink Stumpy: https://web.archive.org/web/2016090...web/20160908223418/http://mombat.org:80/MOMBAT/Bikes/1985_Stumpjumper_Team.html
WaybackMachine on Archive.org has snapshots of the entire Mombat website.
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I love those guys. They did a story on them on NPR and they have been really busy since late last year. They are storing copies in other countries since obviously, one copy/one location is risky.
You can donate to them. Eh hem.
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I think it's still in flux. 
fingers crossed. I've referred to it a lot over the years and I'm so grateful for all the time, effort, and money Jeff and timbercomp spent to give us MOMBAT and FFB.
fingers crossed. I've referred to it a lot over the years and I'm so grateful for all the time, effort, and money Jeff and timbercomp spent to give us MOMBAT and FFB.
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It's going to need to be rebuilt, and that's not going to happen any time soon. It's not in a format that can just be posted back up.
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Ok, so I assume that the content has to be rebuild from the archive.org snapshots? If so and of course if wished couldn't we just gather some people (here, on retrobike & mtb-news) with the proper knowledge in order to share the work and bring mombat back online?
Cheers
Cheers
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Any status on Mombat.org coming back online?
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That's a negative
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