Townsend Bikes

[Once A Hero]

Boom! There it is!
Surprised you saw one out in the wild still! Every now and then I do a eBay search for one, but I'm never disappointed that the search brings up no results! What would I do if I found one... :shock:

As an aside - riding through London the other day I spotted my first road bike chained up, a Raleigh Winner, and if I wasn't pushed for time I might have left my details on it in case the owner wanted to sell it...

I've always wanted to find out what my Townsend bike was called. Not interested in buying/finding one as it was a POS.

IIRC it was a Rhubarb & Custard two tone coloured frame. And it had thumbies too. And it was heavy. But that's about all I can remember......

Excuse the thread revival :shock:, fell into a bit of a rabbit hole trawling for something and ended up here...

A Rhubarb & Custard two tone coloured Townsend sounds like my first MTB - which was a 'Townsend 2000'. I'm not sure what the 2000 was in reference to (perhaps weight in KGs, or the number of minutes of the bikes design life), as I'm sure I acquired it in the summer of 1989.

I traded it in against a MuddyFox the following year, and received the princely sum of £82 off the MFs £282 price tag in doing so

Another thread revival! Since I made that comment I found out that it was indeed a "Townsend 2000".....I walked past one a year or so ago, chained up outside a local pub. Couldn't believe it when I saw it. Brought back some memories......

Found a pic online:

Bought from the catalogue for Christmas in 1989. Wonder if my folks have finished paying for it (and the interest) yet.......

 

[legrandefromage]

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You can have so much fun with the Townsend book of bicycle names

C***puncher

Cock Worrier

Fart Knocker

Knee Trembler

etc etc

*and before you all get fidgety and start writing letters of complaint, here's my very own Townsend Hard Track with, yes, full Deore MT-60

Bitchez

 

[Oldskool13]

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I aint sayin' nuffink!

 

[sinnerman]

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I think its fair to say, Townsend cycles and in particular the ATB/MTB ranges were quite possibly the lowest point we could get too.

Not so much a stain on the nations ATB/MTB history, more like a deep "near end of life" Scar.

I still cringe when i see one. :cry:

 

[Captain Stupido]

I had a really rough Hot Iron a few years ago. Frame was decent IMO, lugged construction and Reynolds tubing, probably miles away from being a decent mountain bike by the standards of the day - but mine rode nice as a town bike... lively and comfy feeling frame.

 

[sinnerman]

I had a really rough Hot Iron a few years ago. Frame was decent IMO, lugged construction and Reynolds tubing, probably miles away from being a decent mountain bike by the standards of the day - but mine rode nice as a town bike... lively and comfy feeling frame.

I can feel good about riding a bicycle too, its good for the soul, just to pedal sometimes is enough.

And then came a townsend, assembling as many as we did back in the day, and doing so much work as we did, just to make them good enough for the shop floor, let alone riding..... as a responsible salesman and cyclist bitd, if i could have put you on the bottom end Saracen, i would have done, just to ensure you were safe and going to get the most from your ride, and enhance your love of mountain biking that little bit further.

(thats is about as polite as i can put it, im sorry.)

 

[velomaniac]

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Stuff your snobbery, my Townsend Beartooth was my first mtb and it got me into the sport. A bike that is enjoyed is a good bike regardless of Brand.
Someone will always have something positive to say about some bike or other. To say all Townsends are sh*** is to insult all those who enjoyed something about them.

 

[sinnerman]

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Stuff your snobbery, my Townsend Beartooth was my first mtb and it got me into the sport. A bike that is enjoyed is a good bike regardless of Brand.
Someone will always have something positive to say about some bike or other. To say all Townsends are sh*** is to insult all those who enjoyed something about them.

Im glad you enjoyed the one that was sold you, you missed the point entirely, call it what you will, snobbery or fact, but for sure, upgrading every customer i could............. i called it a "FAVOUR".

 

[Oldskool13]

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Ahem, Al Carter?

 

[legrandefromage]

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Ahem, Al Carter?

Al....?


Carter.........??


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