Attitude

[HK-II]

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Partial strip down

 

[Jj181]

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Other’s will hopefully know the history better than me and shed more light on this…

My take on it is essentially Milazo is a well-known “entry level” (read commuter) MTB brand in NZ / Australia (?) that sold a lot of mass market bikes to those who simply needed a bike to get to school. Being unkind it is a step down from Avanti but sitting a level above department store bikes. Unlike Avanti who produce a very wide range of bikes all fit for purpose from entry level mountain biking to fruity race machines in addition to a full road range, track bikes even designing custom team bikes for our Olympians over the years, Milazo never had that street cred or authenticity…

So at some stage in the early nineties I can only assume they wanted to raise their stakes in this mountain biking fad thing.
I believe Extreme was a performance sub division of Milazo who at the time arguably had a similar model range target as Avanti.

The Attitude was their Pinnacle of the Extreme range.

Hi mate, I noticed in this post you made mention of Avanti team bikes. I want to find out more about a bike that I’ve come across. I’ll attach some pictures ( it’s quite small)

 

[lopuls]

I think I am able to shed some light on your Avanti Competitor, It was a 2000 model that officially was an Australia only model (even though Avanti was started in NZ). The standard competitor was blue where yours is yellow, and had a mix of XT and XTR, and had a blue Manitou SX from memory. They were a very popular option for XC racers in NZ as they were a very nicely specced bike that was a fair bit more economically priced that overseas options.

The frames were the same Easton Ultra Lite tubing, with different paint schemes. I remember there being a hand full in NZ at 1 point, I put one together for the NZ womens rep at the Sydney Olympics.

They kept with the Easton tubing for a few years after until Carbon took over.

 

[fguki]

but: to be fair! It looks like a bike from a home depot store :-D

How much was a KLEIN Attitude back then again?