Best bike ever!

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Been having a think and today this takes it. Bontrager, no surprises there! Solid, dependable, fits well, comfortable, relatively lightweight, does everything I need it to and in my opinion happens to look good too, always a bonus! View attachment 926610

I agree very nice. What fork is that Ben?

 

[benjabbi]

Thanks Bob.
It's a Bontrager Composite fork.

 

[KayOs]

Lets see some of your bests Matti, always interesting to see another countries bikes. @KayOs What stuff did you have in the DDR?

Hmmm....for me there is only one brand: Diamant.
This is their Modell 67 from 1939, the "Berufsfahrer-Modell", i.e. a bike for professional racers.


Frame made of 0.6 mm chrome-moly tubes, 2.65 kg including fork, 3-speed derailleur gears from Fichtel and Sachs with stylish shifter, handlebars, stem, pedals and brakes made of aluminum and of course the matching bottles.

I did my first laps on the track on one of these Diamant track bikes, and the riding experience was amazing.

In GDR times, the quality of the bikes on sale was getting worse and worse. The best bikes were exported or reserved for professionals.
This was a great pity as the brand was always very innovative.
In the 90s it was then taken over by Villiger and finally by Trek in 2002. Unfortunately, nothing is built in Hartmannsdorf in the former factory anymore.