Top 5 Mountain Biking companies ever.

[BlackCat]

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Can’t believe no one has popped for Selle Italia - without which, no retrobike is complete!

Marinovative.. without which no gamechanging V-brakes

Chris King - because - well, no explanation required

Magura - the first MTB brakes that actually worked

Hmmm.. and DT Swiss?

 

[Prodigal Son]

Specialized, Shimano, Easton, Rock shox, Giro, Ritchey, WTB, Salsa.

 

[retrobikeguy]

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Shimano
Tioga
Rockshox
Ritchey
MBUK

 

[Prodigal Son]

No one mentioned Schwinn. It all begins on a Schwinn Klunker.

 

[legrandefromage]

v-brakes had been around in previous decades

Chris King are just over priced and didnt really change anything or influence anyone

Cantilevers worked and hydraulic disc brakes have been available since the 70's, theres even hydraulic v-brakes if can find them, a decade before the MTB was popular

Schwinn's needed so much modification to be made usable! And they often broke which is why the rest is history...

 

[Prodigal Son]

v-brakes had been around in previous decades

Chris King are just over priced and didnt really change anything or influence anyone

Cantilevers worked and hydraulic disc brakes have been available since the 70's, theres even hydraulic v-brakes if can find them, a decade before the MTB was popular

Schwinn's needed so much modification to be made usable! And they often broke which is why the rest is history...

V brakes before marinovative? INteresting.

Mountain biking started with modified Schwinns in northern California. If there is one brand that made everything possible even unwillingly is Schwinn. Next came Suntour, Shimano and Specialized.
I thought Marinovative sold the first V brake ever.

 

[legrandefromage]

v-brakes had been around in previous decades

Chris King are just over priced and didnt really change anything or influence anyone

Cantilevers worked and hydraulic disc brakes have been available since the 70's, theres even hydraulic v-brakes if can find them, a decade before the MTB was popular

Schwinn's needed so much modification to be made usable! And they often broke which is why the rest is history...

V brakes before marinovative? INteresting.

Mountain biking started with modified Schwinns in northern California. If there is one brand that made everything possible even unwillingly is Schwinn. Next came Suntour, Shimano and Specialized.
I thought Marinovative sold the first V brake ever.

Nah, MTB started with John Finley-Scott, Schwinn got their ideas from ze Germanz in the 1930's and theres a patent for the linear-pull brake sometime in the 1930s. Even the humble Dia-Compe Aheadset was way way before the MTB

And not one Klunker had the Schwinn brandname, not in the old pictures anyway. but you could always ask a certain Mr. C Kelly.

*1974 -ish Shimano hydraulic disc

 

[fearfactoryüberalles]

v-brakes had been around in previous decades

Chris King are just over priced and didnt really change anything or influence anyone

Cantilevers worked and hydraulic disc brakes have been available since the 70's, theres even hydraulic v-brakes if can find them, a decade before the MTB was popular

Schwinn's needed so much modification to be made usable! And they often broke which is why the rest is history...

V brakes before marinovative? INteresting.

Mountain biking started with modified Schwinns in northern California. If there is one brand that made everything possible even unwillingly is Schwinn. Next came Suntour, Shimano and Specialized.
I thought Marinovative sold the first V brake ever.

Nah, MTB started with John Finley-Scott, Schwinn got their ideas from ze Germanz in the 1930's and theres a patent for the linear-pull brake sometime in the 1930s. Even the humble Dia-Compe Aheadset was way way before the MTB

And not one Klunker had the Schwinn brandname, not in the old pictures anyway. but you could always ask a certain Mr. C Kelly.

My pal in Hungary had a Swiss-made rear brake using the same method of V-brakes in 1995 on his spanking new OCLV 9900 TREK (not OEM stuff) . I don't know its name, but there were definitely other companies/inventors in the early '90s offering V-brakes if they weren't even called like this back then

 

[legrandefromage]

Heck, I love discs, had them since that hot summer of '95! And I do like pictures

http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Shi ... ge_40.html

 

[Prodigal Son]

My pal in Hungary had a Swiss-made rear brake using the same method of V-brakes in 1995 on his spanking new OCLV 9900 TREK (not OEM stuff) . I don't know its name, but there were definitely other companies/inventors in the early '90s offering V-brakes if they weren't even called like this back then [/quote]

Marinovative cheap trick is from 1991.