Top 10 All Time Great Bike Designs

[BoyBurning]

Kirk Precision - for its cast magnesium frame
Kestrel - for innovation in carbon fibre
Mantis (Cunningham) - for the X frame, ECR, and Flying V
Geoff Apps - Highpath/Cleland

then Trimble and Slingshot as others have said

No offence, but that's a complete 'I learnt old MTBs from a book' answer.

No one who puts "(Cunningham)" after 'Mantis' having previously suggested 'Kirk' will have not have got their history of 'mountain bikes' from Wiki...

You're missing a direct search for 'titanium' which would presumably answer 'Merlin' and 'wood' which would presumably offer 'retrocycle' or whatever the mad man offers which you must sign agreeing to never tamper with.

Why does no one love Bontrager?

I've got a shit load of comp forks here that I need to shift to pay for my FAT team...

 

[sinnerman]

BONTRAGER.................. .........SIMPLE.

 

[yeti-man]

With all respect, what did we get from Geoff Apps?

 

[FMJ]

I'd say groundbreaking (for MTB) would be a tie between the MC San Andreas and the Foes LTS. Both were completely blank sheet of paper, outside the box designs. Both coincidentally coming from people NOT in the cycling industry (Brent built Trophy trucks, and Rob was a pre-pro MX bike tester for Kawasaki).

And I take issue with the choice of the Honda RN-01, and the remark about Honda being the only company to get it right in the Singletrack post. Honda (as they are widely known to do) bought the prototypes and design rights from a Japanese engineer/rider. They didn't design a single part on the bike.

 

[big.eck]

I'd say groundbreaking (for MTB) would be a tie between the MC San Andreas and the Foes LTS. Both were completely blank sheet of paper, outside the box designs. Both coincidentally coming from people NOT in the cycling industry (Brett built Trophy trucks, and Rob was a pre-pro MX bike tester for Kawasaki).

And I take issue with the choice of the Honda RN-01, and the remark about Honda being the only company to get it right in the Singletrack post. Honda (as they are widely known to do) bought the prototypes and design rights from a Japanese engineer/rider. They didn't design a single part on the bike.

that *honda* is just sex in mtb form :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[moffyr72]

http://nipponnews.photoshelter.com/imag ... XTzFS2198o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_RN-01_G-cross

Whether they designed it or not, I want one of those gearboxes!

 

[FMJ]

that foes is just sex in mtb form :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

What Foes? Foes' bikes have US flag stickers with Handmade in the USA on them, not Japanese Rising Sun stickers. And Brent looks kinda like a tall version of Chuck Norris, not a little Japanese dude.

The red bike is the prototype that would become the Honda RN-01, and the guy holding it up in the pic is the guy who designed/built/raced it.

 

[big.eck]

that foes is just sex in mtb form :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

What Foes? Foes' bikes have US flag stickers with Handmade in the USA on them, not Japanese Rising Sun stickers. And Brent looks kinda like a tall version of Chuck Norris, not a little Japanese dude.

The red bike is the prototype that would become the Honda RN-01, and the guy holding it up in the pic is the guy who designed/built/raced it.

i've been drinking

i'll edit my post

 

[FMJ]

i've been drinking Marin Man-like overuse of emoticons removed

On New Years Eve? Well I never!

I will switch to pictures for you in that case. Here's Brent with one of the Sic 50 frame/fork kits Foes Fab builds.

 

[big.eck]

i've been drinking Marin Man-like overuse of emoticons removed

On New Years Eve? Well I never!

I will switch to pictures for you in that case. Here's Brent with one of the Sic 50 frame/fork kits Foes Fab builds.

i'd almost forgot about mm

thats a nice wee foes there , i've just bought a 200cc pitbike the same size as that . it goes like stink