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    First UK production mtb a Ridgeback?

    We have beautiful documentation that F. W. Evans started selling Conquests in 1984. It still leaves open the possibility that Staples/Saracen sold their mountain bikes up to a year earlier. The Evans Cycles Facebook page has an entry from 2016, picturing a 1984 Conquest, stating: This FW...
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    First UK production mtb a Ridgeback?

    Thank you for your research and insight. My dates were unreliably based upon my wish to have an easily documented timeline and others' wishes to prove that their Saracens were the first locally made mountain bikes to be sold in any quantity. I have updated my dates and guesses accordingly. I...
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    First UK production mtb a Ridgeback?

    I just added a Saracen timeline to an attempt to document all mountain bikes built in the first ten years of their existence: https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/saracen/start. It's been slow going - as I'm only adding a brand a week. This couldn't have been done without the RetroBike resources...
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