It only lasted a couple years before Rokon folded the motocross division and returned to making two-wheel-drive hunting bikes. Rokon’s great American motocrosser was made in Rhode Island with a German Sachs snowmobile engine powering it. The names Rokon, Harley-Davidson, Ammex, Cooper and ATK may ring bells. By no means would Cannondale be the first Great American Motocross Hope. The Cannondale was billed as the Great American Motocross Hope - a made-in-the-USA motocross bike that would rival the best of Japan and Europe. The bike finally hit the showrooms as a 2001 model. That date was changed to the summer of ’99, and after summer passed, there were no more pronouncements from the factory. Originally, Cannondale announced that the bike would be in showrooms in early ’99. We can date the arrival of Cannondale’s motocross effort by the date of the first flurry of press releases however, the release date of an actual race-ready Cannondale MX400 was constantly being pushed back. Believe it or not, it has been 20 years since the Cannondale Bicycle Corporation released the first photos of its prototype, American-made, four-stroke motocrosser. Hype! Hoopla! Ballyhoo! You name it and Cannondale was accused of it.
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