Heavy Tools Bikes

[Carsten G]

Hi

Are there any collectors of Heavy Tools bikes/frames here on RetroBike or maybe know if there are a special place where they meet (if there are a place).

Reason I ask is that I have a Heavy Tools Equipe FS 1 Size M/48cm (red stickers and proto frame) in very good condition (almost mint) and some original RifRaf team clothing (red/white) new and unused.

Normally I would have posted pictures but right now I´m hospitalized so are not able to do that but there will be pictures when I return home within the next two weeks (I hope).

Frame looks like this but without the red rearstays, they are polished like the frame and have a Fox Alps 5R but frame deserves a better shock in my eyes https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K6de ... 520011.jpg

Team Jersey is size medium and very rare (can´t find any pictures online)

Cheers
Carsten

 

[boxxer]

I like that a lot, remember seeing a German guy on one with spins in 1995/6

 

[jimo746]

Looks cool, weren't Heavy Tools another Snow sports / snow board manufacturer that branched out into Mtb in the 90's?

 

[Carsten G]

I like that a lot, remember seeing a German guy on one with spins in 1995/6

They had a Austrian that only raced DH in Europe and did it pretty good, the German where better on the trial mtb and traveling around the world with shows.

On the CC part they had some riders that where supported with a little money and bikes but not full pros.

This frame where designed as a fully with CC ability with the possibility to change the travel and geometri, worked pretty well but the Alps 5R really suck in my eyes.

Looks cool, weren't Heavy Tools another Snow sports / snow board manufacturer that branched out into Mtb in the 90's?

The bikes where the first but as an Austrian company (Salzburg) they obvious had a lot of the lokal bike customers from the Austrian, Swiss and some German snowboard scene, the boards where actually pretty good as the bikes also where.

It where tree brothers that started the firm, it where there life but also a expensive time for them, as I remember they company lifespan where around 15 years.

The brand was on the German marked after that , the German importer bought the name but from there the quality just went dovn the drain.

One of the brothers (the youngest) started a new brand of bikes called HiTech, what happened there I can´t say, I lost contact before that.