Ceased to Exist

[benbonty]

Oh yeah, nice one. Is Mr Crud still in charge or did he sell out?

Yes, I'm told Pete Tomkins is still at the helm.

 

[Silvergoat]

We need 2 threads - ceased to exist & shadows of their former selves.

Agree. Then there's 'the ghosts of shadows' and then 'shadows of ghosts'

 

[Dossa]

Do....

Local Motion
Cosmic Trail
Rox

....count?

 

[Dossa]

Shogun
Gitane
Paioli forks
Critical Racing
DID chains
Fast Feather QRs
Kingsberry
Fag bottom brackets
Mt. Shasta (ie GT)
Al Carter

:?:

 

[Woz]

Was going to say Suzue, but they are still around albeit out of the MTB side by the looks of it:
http://www.suzueltd.com/suzue_history.html

I think Maillard, Huret and Sachs was absorbed into SRAM.

 

[Osella]

Schwinn
Saracen
Onza
Motobecane
AMP Research (kinda)
Sunn

 

[IRIX]

Mongoose (1990-1995) now they aint what they used to be
Muddy Fox (1985-1994?) shadow of it former self

 

[AshtanoJoe]

Coyote (California based, they were around in the late 80s, early 90s).

 

[secret_squirrel]

Aren't Onza in the shadows of their former selves category? Still around but not doing much.

 

[cce]

Onza are an entirely separate company.