Sloping top tubes

[brocklanders023]

So no one thinks Marin then? If not them then they're naughty for claiming so.

 

[perry]

Wow those are a bit modern fluffy ; 29er straight lace . singlespeed , adjustable crank arm length . I'd say thats all bang up to date

 

[orange71]

ditto Cunningham

1983

 

[gump]

Wow those are a bit modern fluffy ; 29er straight lace . singlespeed , adjustable crank arm length . I'd say thats all bang up to date

thought it was a Jones....

 

[J_Westy]

ditto Cunningham

1983

1 year later...

1984 Cannondale SM300/500

 

[beavis]

But even he wasn't the first.

Of course not, they've had them on girls bikes and gentlemen's bikes for a long time


and theses bike in my local museum are pretty old with STT's

Not sure these are production mtbs..!

 

[beavis]

Marin recon they "pioneered it in 1987" in their '92 brochure (not '93 like I though it was.. )

Page 4 I think.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/mai ... 520a5c2548

 

[FluffyChicken]

Not sure these are production mtbs..!

I'm sure they where produced by somebody and I'm sure some where ridden offroad.

I'm would also say they where probably not the first with a tube at the top of their bike that was not horizontal to the ground that where produced by somebody and ridden offroad.


The problem you are going to have is defining produced/production. One man making one bike is a production. Marin could be claiming mass production, but then you would need to define that. Cunningham, 'dale, Kona, Rocky would not be mass production with respect to the scale that Marin/Trek would churn things out.
(this is outside of defining 'MTB')

 

[danee74]

My 88 Kona has a sloping top tube, obviously earlier about though.

 

[beavis]

Not sure these are production mtbs..!

I'm sure they where produced by somebody and I'm sure some where ridden offroad.

I'm would also say they where probably not the first with a tube at the top of their bike that was not horizontal to the ground that where produced by somebody and ridden offroad.


The problem you are going to have is defining produced/production. One man making one bike is a production. Marin could be claiming mass production, but then you would need to define that. Cunningham, 'dale, Kona, Rocky would not be mass production with respect to the scale that Marin/Trek would churn things out.
(this is outside of defining 'MTB')

Think you're probably right with that theory.