I was fettling this today.

Oh my God what year is that!! HAs to be 80’s .. don’t think I’ve EVER seen that frame colour before! Thought my 1994 one was old!

1991 I think. Mostly original too – I fact I think it’s only the saddle that’s been changed.

I bought my first mountain bike, a cindercone, which was the same colour and had a U brake just like that one in 1989.
I bought it from Thornhill cycles, Selly Oak, Birmingham, £429 If I remember correctly?

Matt.

Cantis came back in in 1990 iirc so 89 sounds about right

Please take the clamp of the top tube

me brother had one like that, I guess about ’89

Ooh – ’89 then. She was a couple of years out (or she bought old stock).

peteimpreza – Member

Please take the clamp of the top tube

??

top tubes are thin so some folk think you should not use them to clamp up the frame

Ah. That’ll be the same folk who think Schrader valves are correct on bicycles and that disk brakes are “too powerful” for road bikes….

Loves it, drive train is properly shagged now though

Anyone on here like tiny, retro Konas??

Somebody called?

That’s lovely. It looks much smaller than my old Fire Mountain retro project.

LOL – I thought you’d be along in due course. 😀

What “vintage” is your Fire Mountain?

Yep definately 89, my first proper MTB, where did you find one in that condition? Everything even down to the reflectors is original.

Selly Oak cycles, wow hadn’t heard of them for years, thanks for the memories on this thread 🙂

‘Ah. That’ll be the same folk who think Schrader valves are correct on bicycles and that disk brakes are “too powerful” for road bikes….’

Bollocks.

As advised by several bike makers

Paint splatter paint job – excellent!

Reminds me of my ’91 Diamondback Topanga still lurking in the folks garage somewhere!

Nope – reckon it’s 87 or 88. I bought 2 Konas in 89 (a lava dome and an explosif) and that was the year they’d moved away from splatter frames.

Gutted I sold my old Explosif – trying to find another one to replace it with!!

druidh – Member

LOL – I thought you’d be along in due course.

What “vintage” is your Fire Mountain?

Mine was a 1990, as is that little Cinder Cone. You can see the old 1990 catalogue here. I sold the Fire Mountain as it was really too big for me (17″ I think).

I had a Fire Mountain of the same year; black with pink splatter and rear u-brake. I think it was an ’88 bike. My brother had an expolsif of the same year; pistachio green with yellow splatter. Fantastic bike. He managed to peel the water bottle bosses from the downtube falling off trying to cross the ford at Little Langdale.

Still sorely missed!

Hmmm. Right tyres, wrong groupset. This one is all Shimano, including Biopace rings.

Sorry to sound such a bore but it’s definately an 89 as it was the year I left school and started work in the bike trade, the pink and black fire mountain was also 88, 89 was the first year Second Level Sports had started importing Konas.

So where did you find it OP?

defo not an 87 88. My bro got his to replace a Muddy fox Courier Comp, which he got in 87, and had for 1 1/2 -2 years so its 89/90
i may be able to dig out photographic evidence if i ever work out how to post a pic!!!!!!!

To clarify – I didn’t “get it”. It belongs to a friend of mine who bought it from new. As a chronic sufferer of ME, she’s hardly ridden it, hence the condition it’s in.

Nice tho, innit?

its a beaut’ shame about who you got it. Best wishes to her

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