Show us your first MTB's WAY BACK. Do you still have it?

[stingray230sx]

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my first mt bike bought new in 1994 and I still have it, but the components [except crank] have all been upgraded to period XT and the STX stuff [wheels/shifters/derailleurs] are on a specialized hardrock frame I got in a trade that had no fork/parts etc. I even have the original steel fork for the Raleigh MT300. this bike after I moved and started cleaning it up is what fired me up for the retrobikes..........

 

[CCMDoc]

Not my first but I've had this from new and ride it still

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... ilit=Tomac

 

[FMJ]

Came to MTB from MX, and like MX, I dumped bikes at the end of the season and bought new for the start of the next. They were tools. When I started in on retro many years later I thought it would be nice to have another clean example of of my first one for posterity. Found one the second bike I had and bought it. Then found a frame of the third. Finally found a decent example of the first a couple of years ago. Still haven't ridden it. Now that I think of it, maybe I'll ride it tomorrow.

No BITD pics of the first one. I remember taking some. Just can't find them. Plenty of pics of the 2nd and 3rd, though.

 

[enc]

Jeez, is it an optical illusion or is that front disc really so big ?

 

[FMJ]

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Pro Stop front rotors were 9" (230mm). One of my crazy friends put a front rotor w. custom mount on the rear and an 11" (280mm) custom laser cut rotor/mount on the fork of his San Andreas. Mind you he was 250+ lbs.

 

[Minifreak]

Not my first Mountain Bike, that was a Falcon Beartrap followed by a Claud Butler Oracle after I snapped the Falcon in a Scout bike race.

This bike came along a bit later and was a home brew using an Al Carter frame I stripped the paint from and clear coated. Had a lot of nice parts which got by birthdays and saved up for on my £7 a week paper round money

 

[Thias]

oh jea. And those baggy choths everybody was running around with :roll:

 

[Minifreak]

oh jea. And those baggy choths everybody was running around with :roll:

Still got the combat trousers, belonged to mr girlfriend who was in Army cadets. I think the HeadWorx top was an XL!

 

[531brazed]

No pics, but I still have my R531 Peugeot Black Mamba.
Would you believe its internally fillet brazed. Lovely

 

[Muddy paw]

No pics, but I still have my R531 Peugeot Black Mamba.
Would you believe its internally fillet brazed. Lovely

Pic's please ..