Most popular ATB ?

[silverclaws]

Perhaps it can now be done because of Retrobike, but back in the day what was the most popular ATB and what is it now with the retro ATBs?

My experience of BITD the early nineties the most popular with my ATB club The Woollybacks was American manufacturers, Scott, Marin, Specialized, Trek, Cannondale, Diamond Back etc a few Raleighs, Orange and Muddy Fox and I alone with a Saracen.

So of the bikes from bitd, what has survived to become the most popular now?

What is the most popular and least popular bike with the Retrobike community ?

I suppose a poll would be the way to go with this, but am quite unsure how to go about it.

 

[konaman1]

Mid to late 90's the bike l saw out on the south downs the most would have to be a Kona Lava dome that or any mid range GT.

 

[orange71]

popular now - Fat Chance, Kona Explosif to name but 2 of many

 

[Tad]

When you say popular do you mean the most seen being ridden because of their affordability and avalability or the most lusted after?

 

[silverclaws]

Yeah, affordable as in mere mortals could get them, not the dream machines.

And yes I forgpot about Kona and GT, for I remember those too.

Just looked at the website for my old ATB club and the year I joined was '92 when there was only 25 members, over eighty now, so it has grown a bit.

 

[mikee]

bitd i think it was just what your local bike shop sold
round here it was GT's ,in dundee it was all gary fishers


most popular these days ?

dunno ,loads of oranges on here and a lot of zaskars
generalizeds too

 

[Lysander]

Fer me, Kona Cindercone............never actually had one, but it was kind of the yardstick I used to compare...........as for today, general feeling I get from the board is that GT and Kona are some of the most popular- of course, now that it's all old bits of tat and cheap, we go for high end frames and XT/XTR gear!

 

[drcarlos]

Muddyfox used to be very popular round my way BITD despite no local shops selling them. Local shops stocked Raleigh, Claudbutler, Peugeot, MBK, Scott and Diamondback so that was what we saw, there was rarely a Specialized, Kona or Trek. Today though the Specialized, Konas and Treks are in the Majority as the rest really fell by the wayside in the terms of being serious bikes, in fact all I really saw today out in Swinley were Specialized, Kona and Trek bikes, with the odd Orange.

Carl.

 

[suburbanreuben]

Stumpy.

 

[konaman1]

bitd i think it was just what your local bike shop sold
round here it was GT's ,in dundee it was all gary fisher

This is very true
My local shop was Cyclomania and they stocked predominantly Kona's and GT's so it stands to reason all the local trails would be chocker with these makes.