the coolest mtb's...

[velomaniac]

FAT

They seem very desireable to many people.

 

[messiah]

The coolest bikes are the ones you've got the best memories of and had the most fun with.

Be that riding, owning, building, or drooling in shop windows/magazines.

 

[Cycleshark]

One of my friends has a Ritchey Everest from 1981. ($600 on Ebay, half what it sold for new, 20 years earlier!) At that time the demand was low, and Tom Ritchey could take his time on each bike.

They are jewelry, but there aren't more than a couple of hundred in the world, if that many. This is the nicest "retro" mountain bike anyone could ever own.

I like his bike more than I like my 1983 Ritchey Annapurna, also a super retro bike.

hi ceekay

is there a pigtscheroni of that beauty?

uncle pete

 

[Repack Rider]

is there a pigtscheroni of that beauty?

uncle pete

It belongs to the rider who pasts as Laffeaux on MTBR, where you are all over the place also. He lives in Idaho but came to Marin this weekend and joined Gary and me yesterday on the Annual Appetite Seminar. His website is oldmountainbikes.com

BTW, my comment on the wheels on MTBR was not because I remember every set I ever built, but because all our machine built wheels used Araya rims. and the decal dates the bike to when I was building them. If your wheels are machine built, they will have a sticker from Wheelsmith in Palo Alto.

 

[Neil G]

Anything Tomac rode! Geek? yeah I admit it

Agree with that hence my love of Yetis

Never owned one but always drooled over them, maybe it's time to find one!

 

[Rich]

Surprised no one's mentioned the Doug Bradbury Manitou..for me the ultimate cool...

 

[scant]

Surprised no one's mentioned the Doug Bradbury Manitou..for me the ultimate cool...

only 1 I ever saw in the flesh was broken. so that kinda spoilt them for me.
sharky pete owns that one too <in reference to the ritchey mentioned above>

 

[Andy R]

The coolest bikes are the ones you've got the best memories of and had the most fun with.

Be that riding, owning, building, or drooling in shop windows/magazines.

I totally agree with all of that - my sentiments exactly ! Must be the reason that my '88 Explosif is "cool" (to me) but my poor '93 RM Blizzard has never achieved that status (not in my eyes, at least).

 

[Cycleshark]

Surprised no one's mentioned the Doug Bradbury Manitou..for me the ultimate cool...

only 1 I ever saw in the flesh was broken. so that kinda spoilt them for me.
sharky pete owns that one too <in reference to the ritchey mentioned above>

you have to look in da right places mike.... to find the sweet ones

uncle pete

 

[greenfinger]

That is a seriously cool bike