It is with no small sadness that I must announce officially the discontinuance of our Instigator model.  This makes two models in the last year that we've had to axe, the Conundrum muni frame being the other.  Neither had strong sales, but this didn't bother us too much.  We have always tried to supply well designed stuff to niche markets. Overbuilt steel hardtails is by any measure definitely a niche market these days, and there are still a lot of people who ride, love and want the Instigator, big dudes who break everything else, huckers, and Bama among them.  Unfortunately there are…