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Is Prince Albert still about?
Ballistic
How about Kore.
When I was a kid everyone at the local trails/dirt jumps had Kore Saddles/stems/seatposts.
I've not seen any of their components since.
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There is nothing wrong with my 2012 Sunn Tzar S1 thanks!
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Road bike frames (well, they did others but not so well) - Principia were just about as cutting edge as it got in terms of making a light aluminium frame with lots of acid etching and the like and great production values. They are back now, but making very average carbon frames that don't really stand out from the crowd.
O.K. in the 'ice cool for 5 minutes then swallowed up by time' theme here are some of the frames I lusted after all those years ago.
Chuck Racing:
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Rotec
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Cortina
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And who can forget.. Spooky
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I am aware that Spooky are still going in some form but they're not making Mad DH and dirt jump frames anymore so sadly they're just not the same to me.
Ftw ftw
Ooh, what's happening at Brooklyn machine works? Edit, ah, hard tails, no more mental dh bikes, guess they got so heavy they imploded.
AMP Bikes, always wanted a B-4, din't spez buy them or the suspension rights?
Sachs, again brought out, think by SRAM.
Suntour didn't they make lots of mechs/drivechain parts and was "better" groupsets to have back in the day? now known mainly for there forks.
Still going strong...
Aye, they exist as a company but I have never seen anything since '03 in the wild.
Salmon parts.
Been bag clothing.
Vetta bike computers?
Cosmic Trail
Fat Chance (until recently)
Mongoose
Diamond Back
Are Fuquay still about?
Syncros?
Hercules 🙂
Slingshot bikes?
They're still going now* but they were never big at anytime where they . They seemed to have been around for ever and ever and ever seemingly not selling many bikes - I remember the ads for their BMXs with the same cable thing back in the early 80s
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*Although according to their website they seem to thing 1982 was 29 years ago... so maybe they're not still active
Not quite.. They had a load of stock in the warehouse once that created the same gravity levels as a collapsed star. They're still going though as the heavy metal essence of BMW had the power to escape the black hole that was created, looking like the motorcyclist on the bat out of hell cover. But riding a more bad-ass bike.Brooklyn machine works? Edit, ah, hard tails, no more mental dh bikes, guess they got so heavy they imploded
if you come out with been bag clothing you are showing your age. still have a yellow jacket of theirs in the loft still draws attention to itself if i wear it outside.
mountain cycle went pop a few years back think intense brought a few bits of them to build better frames
Amp Research
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I so wanted one of those in the day....
Outland -- They developed the VPP suspension design and later sold the license to Santa Cruz.
Their problem was that they used bushings at all the pivot points instead of cartridge bearings. When the bushings wore out, the frame became sort of a "flexible flyer" and the only way to get bushings was to have them machined as Outland had gone out of business.
I had one and, to this day, still one of my favorite bikes.
Not a bike brand as such, but...
IRC tyres. I think I've got a pair of red side walled IRC Kujo tyres in my dad's garage.
Nokian tyres. My mate putting 24" wheels in his Kona hardtail with 3" gazzaloddi's on was on to something. The Jr T's he also put on it made one unstoppable machine.
*edit: just seen the other thread...*
Klein:
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Malcom Smith Racing. The prerunner to Alpinestars.
Wish I'd never sold my MSR for the shitty Alpinestars. 😥
Overburys. Whatever happened to them with their 24" rear wheel.
Etto helmets. They were the shizznit with their bear ears...
Funk bikes/frames - always lusted after one of these:
They're still going. Producing custom built Ti frames.
DeKerf.
Fat Tec.
Highpath.
Not to forget Macaw tyres.
Oh yeah, how could I forget!?
Ladies and gentlemen... my beloved Balfa BB7:
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Mountain Cycles +1
The San Andreas was just mindblowing the first time I saw one in the flesh.
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Lahar DHV 9 Carbon
Rox was the brand that sprung to my mind.
Pashley as well. I know they still exist but they no longer make the legendary 24/26MHz trials bikes.
The pashly 24/26 snap a lot trail frames were just a blip for pashly who now do what they always did before and also own moulton bikes
njee20Iron horse
They're just a defunct brand, not sure I'd say they were "of their time", in that they didn't innovate and got left behind or owt, they just didn't sell many bikes!
Pretty sure the owner embezzled a few million didn't he? Probably didn't help the company. They won two or was it three DH world cups and sold a truck load of Sundays so I'd say very much "of their time".
Cook Bros cranks.
Air B tubes
Grafton Brakes
Have only just retired my superBs, literally just a few months ago. A couple of fingers now poking out through the ends and a bit smelly. Still, they must of lasted for the best part of twenty years! I got the reds ones to match my red Proflex 856!
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There is nothing wrong with my 2012 Sunn Tzar S1 thanks!
It's just a generic hardtail, hardly reminiscent of the world cup winning times of Nicolas Vouilloz & Anne-Caroline Chausson.
Who said Suntour? Pretty sure they're currently the world's largest manufacturer of mtb suspension forks.
what was the brand that's UK trademark lapsed and Superstar Cycles in Nottingham then bought and put out a product, and everyone went a bit mental?
Aye, they exist as a company but I have never seen anything since '03 in the wild.
Ahem...and very nice they are too!...(Kore Durox bars, pic came out much smaller than i'd anticipated).
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managed to find a pic of me with my heavily tricked out proflex and wearing my SuperB gloves. September 1997 it says in the album and by that stage I had been mountain biking for 10 years already!
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No elastomers here.
Are Lotus Bikes still going?
AC Components
Proshift
by that stage I had been mountain biking for 10 years already!
were you lost?
Allsop.
Orange.
Disappearance confirmed last month when I tried to buy a circa £2.5K cross country bike from them. My last three bikes (1991, 1999 and 2008) where from them, but they seem to have lost the plot.
On a more serious note, Shocktech. How can a company producing such quality forks disappear?
Global, I had one of their titanium frames. Can only assume that they went out of business in the last decade.
Chumba.
They used to be huge. Then that spoilt rich kid lawyer bought them and destroyed their reputation.They are still around and make some nice looking frames under a new owner.
British Eagle, and maybe a bit lesser, Univega.
Ahh the iron horse scandal.
From memory, fella at the top was selling stock out the backdoor for cash, these bikes found there way into discount stores priced for retail way below what the actual bike shops paid trade for.
This devalued the brand in america as they got viewed as cheapo bikes, proper bike shops dropped them over it, and all sort of happened just as they hit the big time with world cup wins. Really good bikes, fella at the top really scored a massive own goal....... 🙂
Trimble?
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Website implies still available but is dated 2006/7