EXOTICA ONLY..........!

[walleater]

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It's an undisputable fact the American companies and builders led in the development of the technology and sport that we call mountain biking - it took Europe at least a decade to decide that MTB/vtt/atb'so weren't just a fad, which allowed North Anerican builders to start producing viable bikes, and push design parameters much earlier.

Given that, there are simply more iconic, significant US-based bikes that date back further than the Euro bikes.

We can't rewrite the history - but we can acknowledge the roles that each company and country played in the development of mountain biking into a Global Sport. We just can get mad that the Americans led the way. It's favt-based history.

And yet funnily enough, the modern 'enduro' type mountain bikes share much more resemblance in terms of design to the klunker type bikes. Slack geometry, short stems, wide bars, wide rims....the list goes on. The NORBA style bike proved to be an evolutionary dead end unless you like riding around fields or fireroads.

Anyway, here's my old Specialized M2 Team Edition with Bontrager Competition fork. The frame lasted around 2 months

 

[redfern1950s]

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Salsa........

Mountain Goats.......

Kleins.........

Bontrager..........

W.T.B............

Cunninghams.............

Yetis.............

FUNK.................

COme on WHat am I forgetting............

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would be nice to see a Boulder posted here.

 

[Benandemu]

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[player]

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This was brought over to the UK by a Canadian student whilst studying at Portsmouth Uni, was still a Polytechnic then I think. I bought it off him in 1993, had it ever since and it's my one keeper.

If I ever bought a Klein it would be in backfire.

 

[Retro Spud]

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Loads of top shelf MTB Pornography on show

so far the one I just wanna jump on and ride off has to be Wadsey's DB Axis TT,

It's call me.....and the voices in my head are getting louder :shock:

 

[legrandefromage]

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It's an undisputable fact the American companies and builders led in the development of the technology and sport that we call mountain biking - it took Europe at least a decade to decide that MTB/vtt/atb'so weren't just a fad, which allowed North Anerican builders to start producing viable bikes, and push design parameters much earlier.

Given that, there are simply more iconic, significant US-based bikes that date back further than the Euro bikes.

We can't rewrite the history - but we can acknowledge the roles that each company and country played in the development of mountain biking into a Global Sport. We just can get mad that the Americans led the way. It's favt-based history.

Cant quite agree with that - the UK scene started fairly early in the 1980's and ALL the builders had to rely on Japanese drive trains no matter who built what. Europe is a group of countries and we have Italy to thank for some of the nicest rims and frame materials (the MTB specific groupsets were questionable!).

But, THATS NOT THE POINT, one of the most iconic bikes of the early 1990's has to be the Zaskar, it was the first do-it-all frames, it was handmade in the US and exotic to some of us Brits at the time so heres mine:

 

[sinnerman]

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LUSH.

 

[Retro Spud]

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one of the most iconic bikes of the early 1990's has to be the Zaskar, it was the first do-it-all frames, it was handmade in the US and exotic to some of us Brits at the time so heres mine:

OMG LFG

thats a million miles away from the Acera X and Alvio Saracens and Raleigh you tend to turn up on....

what a corker!

 

[sinnerman]

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Very cool.

 

[legrandefromage]

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OMG LFG

thats a million miles away from the Acera X and Alvio Saracens and Raleigh you tend to turn up on....

what a corker!

Cheeky - never 'turned up' on any Raleigh or Saracen with Acera or Alivio.

200GS maybe...