McMahon Titanium

[GT-Steve]

Just been getting into this whole retro thing after a 15 year break, and the titanium legend (for me anyway) that was Mcmahon, popped into my head. I remember going to a mtb show back in the early 90's, in Olympia, London, and I remember seeing Steve (I think that was his name) Mcmahon and his bloody drop-dead-gorgeous frame/bike.

Done some searches here, and there's not a lot of info on Mcmahon, who remembers him? How often do they appear for sale (compared to litespeed and Merlin variants)? what sort of money do they fetch? Does anyone in the UK have one, and what sort of price would I be looking at for one (frame, or complete bike??

Any help would be fantastic on this one (PICS WOULD BE EVEN BETTER) and it's a bit sad that it's taken me 15 years for my career to be able to enable me to possibly afford one!

Steve

 

[Dr S]

There has been a fantastic example sat in my office for the last few weeks. Fully kitted out with McMahon forks, bars, stem, bar ends, seatpost, BB, sissor brakes and Steely Dans. It belongs to NE regular Dr Drew and was in my care for a little pre ride fettling. A thing of beauty and judging by the brief run around the yard quite a lively performer too.
If you do a search you will find pics of it I'm sure.

Brakes were a right bastard to set up btw.

Si

 

[GT-Steve]

There has been a fantastic example sat in my office for the last few weeks. Fully kitted out with McMahon forks, bars, stem, bar ends, seatpost, BB, sissor brakes and Steely Dans. It belongs to NE regular Dr Drew and was in my care for a little pre ride fettling. A thing of beauty and judging by the brief run around the yard quite a lively performer too.
If you do a search you will find pics of it I'm sure.

Brakes were a right bastard to set up btw.

Si

Thanks for the reply, and (imo) you're right they were a thing of absolute beauty. I did a quick search for Mcmahon and didn't really uncover a lot, but I'll try again when I have more time.

If you've got any pics I'd love to see them?? The one I saw at Olympia was dripping in anodised blue components, and they really complimented the blue 'McMahon' decals.

Yummy!! :twisted:

 

[DocBraunson]

shoot "Gearlessinseattle" as PM. Here in seattle one was on craigslist. i thought about it and i talked to Lawrence a couple weeks back and i guess he ended up buying it! the guy was asking like $150 USD for it and i guess Lawrence got it for $80 or something because of a frozen BB that cost a bucnh to get a machine shop to remove! but he will tell you all about it i am sure and maybe hit you up with pic! good luck. when i saw the posting i did some research and didn't come up with much either probably why i didn't call the guy to buy it myself.

doc

 

[Dr S]

Here you go....

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44510&highlight=mcmahon

 

[GT-Steve]

Here you go....

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44510&highlight=mcmahon

Pure, unadulterated bicycle beaty.

Thank you very much. Still 18 years (or so) on, and still my most favourite bike of all time. If I look hard enough for one I might just get lucky???!!!

 

[slimjoe]

Stunning

Here you go....

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44510&highlight=mcmahon

I too had one of these around 2 1/2 years ago. Had it bead blasted and new decals..looked stunning.

Im missed out on a road version 3-4 weeks back and im still recoiling with self pity :cry:

 

[Drewson]

Steve McMahon was building Ti frames, forks & components in the early-mid 90's.

Think the list of build stuff was something like :

Frames
Rigid & Sus forks
Seatposts
Bars
Bar-ends
Stems
Bottom Brackets
Steely Danz cranks
Pedal spindles
Brakes (eg. scissor brakes)

I've always loved McMahon kit, even if it has a bit of a bad reputation for build quality on some of the components e.g. early seatposts.
Do a search on MTBR.com for McMahon, there is a bit of info to be found in previous threads.

I've still got mine, but as DrS mentioned it hasn't had much of a run out yet... The frame & forks cost me £290 approx, which was about the going rate for early Merlin Ti frames at the time.

Hope this helps a bit.

Drew