Most wanted – iconic mountain bikes

Merlin xlm

pace f8 in red

Always wanted one. I will find one thats not bust.

doof_doof wins – I’d forgotten about that one – wasn’t it also very toxic to manufacture ?

I’d still love an Ultimate with a tioga disc wheel…
But I’d ride a Bow-ti if I could.( who’s got the nos one in Edinburgh ?)

Sintesi Bazooka
First bike I threw a leg over that was “plush”!!

If it’s about lighting those teenage fires again the words Saracen Kili Flyer and even the brand name Muddy Fox still bring back a little flutter for kit that was on my lust list but sadly out of reach.

Honda RN01

My mate still uses his M1 and LTS – does he get a sweetie?

@timnurkoz
“@chipps, was it not the ‘walkers roast chicken’ colour one with Pace RC36 proclass forks? #notastalker. Though i do still have that issue!”

No, that was my singlespeed. I bought two frames off Greg.

A Yeti FRO went through Ebay recently without attracting a single bid 😕

How did I miss this thread!!

Owned:
Marin Team Tit (got nicked whilst I was waiting for my race in Cannock back in the day, only owned it for 6 weeks..never recovered it)
Klein Attitude (replaced Team Tit)
Yo Eddy (in black and lime green, sold to my mate when I needed the money for a boat I had and I’d had enough of MTB’ing, also had a factory T-Shirt they sent me with the logo of Eddy on it, that funny line drawing kid..)

Always loved the look of the Pace’s but by this time I’d had enough.

Not now though..

A few years ago I built one of these up with a wishlist spec from back in the day (and a few modern bits).

It was a fun project but after breaking a few forks and wheels I realised I’d rather be riding/breaking modern stuff.

Bontrager Privateer
Turner Burner
Fat Chance Yo Eddy
De Kerf Implant

All lovely bikes and have owned the first two although Turner was a 5 Spot and the other two were, are just bikes I’d love to have owned. San Andreas is a good call though and current bike hammering my psychi is a Chromag Samuri just to see if they ride as good as they look!

Would have to give the Orange Five a mention for the sheer trail domininance

96 GT Zaskar
98 Gt Sts lobo
01 Intense tazer HT and FS
05/06 S-works enduro

Still have the gt’s and on the look out for a Intense. As a kid the first three where what i dream of.

Intense M1

Specialized FSR DH as ridden by Palmer

Turner Burner

Pace DH bike

GT Zaskar

Cannondale Super V

Cannondale Beast of the East

GT STS and LTS

Fat Chance Yo Eddy

Any Yeti Straight X

Santa Cruz Chameleon

I’m sure there are loads more too.

apologies if already mentioned but some of my choices would be :-

klein attitude in that purple linear fade colour/has to have the rigid oversize forks too)

rocky mountain ti bolt

kona hei hei (titanium ht classic)

+1 on the gt zaskar re issue ball burnished frame

i saw a mountain goat whiskytown racer a few weeks ago at the bike shop i go to (it’s tubes were nearly as skinny as my duster’s 😯

funk (elevated e stay aluminium bike) must come with the oversized funk rigid forks too.

+1 also for the alpinestars al mega/ti mega elevated stay bikes

yeti a.r.c/ultimate with accutrax rigid forks

+1 also for the skinny tubes orange clockwork (either in matt black/purple silver)

another marin eldridge grade circa 1991-2 with matt black zolatone front end gloss red rear triangle) i had one back in 1992 (lovely bike 😀

chas roberts d.o.g.s b.o.l.l.o.x (in white/black) must come with the rigid forks too.

that’s about it (for now 😀

I feel quite lucky when it comes to bikes, because there are few i’ve wanted and never been able to have. By luck, saving, right/time/place etc:

Started with
87 Bear Valley
90 Funk pro Compe (i lived in California, seemed churlish not to)
92 GT RTS-1 (with tioga disk wheel rear, all Tomac-esque)
94 San Andreas
95 Yeti FRO
96 Spesh FSR elite.
2000 Spesh Enduro
2005 Spesh SX trail – which i still have and love.

I’m now too old, and sensible to chase some elite/ideal/boutique bike brand. And, after all… i have an SX trail. enough for me.

Doug Bradbury Manitou hard tail MK1 I woned one, fantastic bike. sold it at a Singletrack boot sale several years ago. wonder were she is now 😥

I have mine 😀
Y22 and Bonty Priv 😆

Future icon = Blue Pig which I also have

Also have an old Saracen and Raliegh m-trax carbon 😀

I think this needs to be added here;

As does this;

They were the best of times, the most mental of times….

Doug Bradbury Manitou hard tail MK1 I woned one, fantastic bike. sold it at a Singletrack boot sale several years ago. wonder were she is now

You mean the proper pre-Answer, made in Dougs garage frames? Any photos?

Had my dream bike in the 90`s 🙂 .. Zaskar LE , lots of XTR .. Brakes, Mechs, Wheels with ceramic rims .. XT thumbshifters, polished mag 21 forks, middleburn chainset and some blue bits 🙂 ….
Did help in the fact i was working for a frame builder at the time and the XTR stuff was almost as cheap as LX stuff 🙂

Only a few things I’ve not had but really wanted
Dekerf team sl
Merlin XML
Dogs bolx in white
Maybe a pre trek bontrager frame

Do miss my 2004 sworks enduro or muddy fox cromo ultimate though

Raleigh Dynatech?

Always wanted the ‘Pro’ version that wasn’t commercially available and…
got one which I rode for a couple of years…
Then sold it to fund a motorbike 😥
It then got nicked off the guy I sold it too..

Raleigh Dynatech?

Always wanted the ‘Pro’ version that wasn’t commercially available and…
got one which I rode for a couple of years…
Then sold it to fund a motorbike 😥
It then got nicked off the guy I sold it to..

I’ve got a Dynatech, no way should it grace the “most wanted” list IMO.

Also got a Roberts DOGS BOLX but haven’t used it in a few yrs <hangs head in shame>

Bontrager Race Lite RS – this was the pre-Trek suspension corrected frame built by the man himself from True Temper road tubes. Came with a pair of original RockShox with a special set of Bontrager crowns. I used to have one. It got nicked. Rare as hens teeth these days.

Others I’d lust after –

Fat Chance Yo Eddy
Mountain Goat Whiskey Town Racer
Yeti ARC
Marin Team Titanium
Klein Attitude (the origianl version with the pink/white/green paint job).
Trimble Inverse 4 (amazingly they’re still in business!!)
Muddy Fox Limited Edition (Suntour Roller-Cam brakes, anyone??)
Overbury’s Pioneer – absolutely classic frame design.
Dave Yates – remember him? He builds some beautiful, classic bike frames.

if anybody wants a shot on my ibis bowTi and are near west london village send me an email.

It’s all DH 🙂

The Specialized FSR DH that Palmer rode was a work of absolutely beauty. I reckon it’s a great looking bike – even looks good by today’s standards (bar the enormous 46t front ring!)

Cannondale Gemini DH – with two shocks for 18 square inches of travel. A fantastic bit of out-of-the-box thinking, although apparently it didn’t work well enough to warrant the extra weight. Would love to have a ride on one though.

Yeti 303. Very 2006, but I loved the look and the idea behind the rail-driven shock. Nearly got one as my first DH bike before I went for an Intense instead!

I have a classic/iconic mountain bike. The Bridgestone MB-Zip This was the second bike I ever owner and I started to become a Weight Weenie with this bike and I have never looked back.

The other bike is my Serotta T-Max

Lastly I would have to say the 1988 Kestrel Carbon Soft Tail.

“All the pies” If you’re looking to get shot of your DOGS BOLX ping me an email please.

I’ve had most of my most wanted.
Pace’s RC200 F8 & F2
Pace RC300
Sworks M2
GT Zaskar few of
Litespeed
Merlin
Orange 5
Proflex 855
Yeti ARC

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Got to get the original…

Weather is great here in southern Spain so took out my 96 Kona Cinder Cone today and it still handles as well as my new BH.

I had a new Proflex 955 with Girvin front forks , i built it frame up from a shop in Caversham i think,Mountain High? i saw it on the cover of an mtb mag and had to have it. I sold it a while ago on ebay ,still mint condition, and i miss it now.

I own my two choices- first is a ’92 Cinder Cone, always wanted one- got a ’94 one and sold it in about 1998 for a Santa Cruz Chameleon (which was awesome by the way).
Got my ’92 Cinder Cone last year (thanks to Ringo on Retrobike):

And the other is a 2004 Intense Spider- wanted it ever since i saw the first one (can’t remember when they first came out) a few years earlier. Got it in 2005 and annoyed the bank manager in the process 😀

I’d still love a 1994 Kona Hei Hei though. Oh and a San Andreas 😉

1996 Zaskar in Frost Red with Pace Evo forks.

Luckily, I’ve owned one since new.

I still have a couple of frames that were iconic to at least me back in the late 90’s early 00’s

The original Cove Stiffee
Turner burner

Both were so far removed from standard Raleigh stuff (even the team pro I used to own) I had been riding up until then & those bikes opened my mind to to real mountain biking rather than going for a ride around footpaths & bridal ways in London.

Cannondale Beast of the East!
GT LTS, polished finish.
GT Zaskar also polished.
Giant ATX 900 – Full susser Rob Warner used for a long time.
Marin Mount Vision.