Vintage Bikes in Colorado [DB Manitou Content]

[ridevintagemtb]

Stole this thread idea from MTBR VRC...

Strolling through the local LBS today and snapped some shots of these gems. Both employees worked for Doug BITD. Pete_MCC... might be a useful reference for your build? PM for details.

Both shop employees worked for DB

fixed crack

Nuke Proof

Call the ball Ghostrider

Not my thing, but this looks expensive

 

[JustKev]

The legendary Klein TopGun. Never seen one - wow they did exist

 

[orange71]

excuse my ignorance but what's the lump in the seat tube on the 1st Manitou?

 

[ridevintagemtb]

Crack repair

 

[Vitorzip]

fixed crack

 

[orange71]

Manitou? Crack? :roll:

 

[Inigo Montoya]

nice idea for a thread. reminds me of me visiting a lbs around 1991 here in vienna. they had a yeti ultimate in violet hanging on the wall. will never forget that picture...
btw. a klein top gun was sold on ebay germany 4-5 month ago. was quite beaten though...

 

[neilll]

Nice Rocky Mountain Cirrus (or maybe Experience...hard to tell from that angle :? )

 

[Carsten]

...to continue the thread idea, south texas is not really mtb territory but there's a nice old bike shop in houston that has an amazing collection of old steel mtbs. i haven't yet seen all of them but what's on display there is well worth a visit

starting with a not that exciting but nice Fisher

late 80s Stumpjumper

early Stumpy

Ritchey Aspen

a sweet and colorful Ibis

a just as colorful FAT

a funky Brodie Romax

an early Yeti Ultimate

a Trimble with drop bars and a Fisher RS-1 (and on the far left you can already partly see my favourite bike)

and there it is, a very early (81 or 82, need to check the serial number) Mountain Goat Deluxe in mint original condition with all the cool pre-MTB parts like Cook Bros BMX hubs, TA cranks, Brooks seat, Mitsuboshi tires etc.

there's another younger Deluxe, a few old Fats (one with box crown fork) and a 10th Anni Fat, an old DeKerf, Ibis Scorcher and a few more.

all those bikes are not for sale but they have modern classics for sale like IF, Kish, Castellano etc.

Carsten

 

[BG]

Is that nuke proof with the weird oversized head tube designed to fit a set of linkage forks with the shock in the steerer? I remember seeing one in a magazine way back, but couldn't remember the brand. I always wanted some linkage forks - never gotten around to it though.