Fisher CR-7

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courier

Agreed, better than suggesting a steel piped gate bike of the decade.

merlin mountain

Yep Courier, started it all off in this Country.

CR-7. Yep, still mistyeyed about mine, a revelation after the Cannondale 3.0 it replaced.
Aah nostalgia eh.
Bet it’d ride like a pig today though.

GPz900R

Is this a form of willy waving? “look at me i was riding bikes way before 2000 so therefore i am hardcore and cool” 🙂

Specialized Stumpjumper

Is this a form of willy waving? “look at me i was riding bikes way before 2000 so therefore i am hardcore and cool”

No, more “i was riding bikes way before 2000 so therefore i am old and decrepit”

i am old and decrepid therefore eligible to vote:-

kona cinder cone with paint splatter finish

pace/kona exposif

si_progressivebikes – Member
Is this a form of willy waving? “look at me i was riding bikes way before 2000 so therefore i am hardcore and cool”

BUSTED!

Repack rider will be along shortly to slap our faces with his schlong from Cali.

Stumpjumper was the iconic quality mountainbike of the era, if anyone at the time could only name one MTB it was the stumpjumper.

If you can push the period, the GT Zaskar (believe it came out in 1991 model year, so probably available late 1990) for making aluminium the material to have for most of the next decade.

Both bikes were helped by having famous riders associated with them (Ned Overend, Julie Furtado and Hans Rey)

It would have to be the MF Courier for bringing it to the masses. They used to sell themselves.

I wasn’t alive during that decade, but my vote is for the Orange Clockwork, since I know people who still actually ride them. I’m going to be very embarrassed if someone comes along to tell me that they were post 1990 or something…

I remember the first Ridgebacks in a Madison catalogue. Big sellers were Saracen Conquests, Specialized Rockhoppers and Muddy Fox Couriers.

I doubt Al would vote for a Stumpjumper.

Oh. My. Al!

farmer giles – Member
i am old and decrepid therefore eligible to vote:-

kona cinder cone with paint splatter finish

Like this one??

CinderCone by druidh_dubh, on Flickr

LOL I had one of those Konas in 89. First thing I did was swap those horrible grips.

I’d vote for Stuart Dangerous’s Mav – Back. A hybrid Releigh Maverick and a Ridgeback, with motorcycle bars. The wee guy is Kevin Dangerous of Escape Route in Pitlochry

If you can push the period, the GT Zaskar (believe it came out in 1991 model year, so probably available late 1990) for making aluminium the material to have for most of the next decade.

Nah, that was cannondale, and the the meisters of alu KLEIN… I had a 1993 fervor….luvly it was

Heh Pete that was a Rockhopper Comp, 1988.

Yellow Marin Muirwood, much loved and missed when it was stolen…

Heh Pete that was a Rockhopper Comp, 1988.

You sure?

aah kona cindercone. I can still remember the smell of that bike.

Yep! Colourways were similar, but check out the Deore chainset and high rise alloy stem.

Pete, you’re such a n00b!

Samir’s troos in that ^^^ photo are ace! 🙂

“Samir” LOL 😀

GT Zaskar

Courier.
Never came back without needing to mend something.

Used to have a lovely Overbury Pioneer back in the 80s. Until some protoscum broke into the garage and made off with it.

McMoonter – are you the guy featured in the December 1989 MBUK? I think it featured the Devil’s Staircase / Kinlochleven. That was the first MTB mag I bought and what got me into biking. I’ve still got it somewhere.

McMoonter – are you the guy featured in the December 1989 MBUK? I think it featured the Devil’s Staircase / Kinlochleven. That was the first MTB mag I bought and what got me into biking. I’ve still got it somewhere.

I dont think so.

We did get into some mags. I think the most memorable was D(Danger)Day in Aboyne, sometime in the late 80s

You’re all wrong, it’s the Pace RC100 without a doubt!

My 1985 Overburys Fellrder or Dawes Countryman same era

Yeti FRO

😉

Courier.

+1 for the Yeti FRO. Wish I still had mine 😥