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https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/f-w-evans-atb-1984-5-milton-keynes.438797/ 1984/5 F.W. Evans ATB - For sale in Milton Keynes

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133913253532?hash=item1f2dda169c:g:qIwAAOSwQfFhdVL3 The 1984 F.W. Evans/Saracen ATB was the first US style mountain bike to be manufactured in the UK. The very first bikes were built with Reynolds' 501 All-Terrain tubing from May 1984. On the first of January the...

Information compiled from the Raleigh Bicycle Company Wikipedia page: In 1982, Raleigh sold the rights to their name in the US to the Huffy corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, Raleigh of England licensed Huffy to design and distribute Raleigh bicycles in the US. The renamed Raleigh...

Yes. In 1981 Gary Fisher and Charlie Kelly displayed one of their first Ritchey framed production prototypes at the Long Beach cycle show attracting a great deal of interest from Japanese bicycle manufacturers. "The Japanese liked what they saw, measured up, and went home and cloned mountain...

Both suspension and large diameter wheels existed on mainstream bicycles more than 100 years ago. It was the marketing of pneumatic tyre from 1995, and the improvements made to road surfaces that led to the demise of both. Due to this, bicycle wheels became smaller and tyres narrower. By the...

It is very interesting that as well as the allegedly UK designed, far-eastern manufactured Ridgeback, Freewheel were also selling the US designed, far-east built Ritchey MTB. I wonder whether this was part of the consignment of 20 Ritchey Montares that Richard Ballantine and Richard Grant...

The F.W. Evans that first went on sale in May 1984 were named and advertised as The F.W. Evans ATBs. The identical spec Saracens that I first saw later in 1984 at Bell St. Bikes were named and advertised as The F.W. Evans ATBs. I think that the Conquest models came out later in 1984 and may have...

The pictures of the Moulton AM-ATB first appeared in the UK cycling press in August 1988 and I rode one in the September. I did not buy one but my friend did. I do not know if he still has it. In 1990 I bought a first generation Moulton-APB which was a budget version of the ATB. I still have...

Lots of interesting information there, much of which I did not know. Thanks for posting. In 1978, Geoff Apps' first serious off-road bicycle design shown below was specified to have 24" x 2" wheels. Apps then went on to design 650b and 700c bikes that were primarily designed for long distance...

My very brief history of MTB wheel sizes concentrated on 26" and larger wheel sizes. As you point out, telling the whole story of MTB wheel sizes would take a lot more time. Maybe this could be a subject for a new thread? Yes, there is also a separate and equally interesting, though not as...

The 1981 start date for Reynolds 531-All-Terrain tubing given on their site does not make sense when viewed against the general timeline for MTB production or surviving 531 MTBs. However, the earliest date they give for 501 road tubing is 1981 and the dates they give for 531-All-Terrain tubing...

Yes, it would be great to tie together how the reported designing of the F.W. Evans/Saracen ATB by Gary Smith links to the creation of the bikes. The timescale for this will be between the preparation of the two Ritchey Montares for the February 1983 Sahara Expedition and the bikes first...

The Reynolds website is at best a secondary modern source of information and so only can be trusted if the information it contains comes from primary contemporary sources. So when you say that you 'wouldn't give it much credence', I partially agree that you. Yes, the information it contains may...

Thank you very much for posting these scans from the 1983 Freewheel catalogue. They are extremely informative and paint a picture of retailers selling mountain-bikes into a market who did not know anything about them. It is especially interesting that they are also targeting urban riders well...

A very good point. Back then there was no internet and research was done via; books, magazines, word of mouth/telephone-conversations and letter writing. There was no Google Translate and if you wanted to source components from abroad you either had to hope that they understood English or know...

Yes, memories can play tricks and a bike that was named after an MTB expedition up mount Kilimangaro in 1985 is highly unlikely to predate that event. The imbedding of incorrect facts, or incorrectly conflated facts as above, into long-term memory can turn the most honest of people into abject...

5th of December 2021 and the Clelands are off to play in the woods once more: Video of last year's ride