[Closed] Bike of the decade 1980 - 1990

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"

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.

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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??

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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

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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?

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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

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😉

Courier.

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

druid - the kona that you posted is the puppy (if you ignore the gehy reflectors and add a flouro zefel pump), but i always remember them in 20" frames even though we are all 5'3" riders !!!!!!!!

stumpjumper

Ridgeback 602LX
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My first mountain bike (actually my dads, but he rarely rode it) so I may be biased, but it was one of the first real mountain bikes that was affordable and available in this country (or Nottingham at least). So maybe not the best bike of the 80's but definitely MY bike of the 80's. Still have it around and good to ride occasionally to remind myself how much bikes have progressed.

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

Bur both Klein and Cannondale are both manufacturers, we are talking about a specific bike. IIRC the famous big-piped bikes like the Klein Attitude came out after 1990 (as did the Zaskar *cough*), and whilst they were highly regarded amongst "serious" mtbers, even the layman had seen hans rey hopping about on a zaskar.

Both Zaskar and Stumpy became almost synonyms for mountain bikes, like Hoover did for vacuum cleaners.Neither are my favourite bike but I think they both had a huge impact on the industry and the wider public.

I'd just like to say that this accolade SHOULD NOT go to the Raleigh Montage, my first MTB...

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I have a photo of me racing my Montage in 1990 .I was slim and had hair in those days!!

Was your enormous too?

I've only ever seen them in garden gate size. Mine was a 24".

hey boblo, i might be being a bit thick but who or what is "samir" ?
oh yeah, dawes cougar was the best .......531 lovelyness

my first MTB in 1985 was Kona ciner cone in white with red spots,, then it got stolen and replaced by scott pro racer with WP rond forks about 1990
my scott is still out there

I remember the first ever mountain bike I saw was a Kuwahara in a bmx mag, must have been about 1984.

We thought it looked like a good idea, so started making our own from old raleigh bombers, brazing on canti brake mounts. We even welded on a second bb above the original to raise the bb height. Worked ok but we would bend the forks every ride doing jumps.

I then got a raleigh maverick in 1985, bolted on racks, bashguards and all sorts of heavy steel bits and then raced cyclo-cross on it.

Circa 1987 my dad bought one of these, which I pinched to race at the Blandford Surftracks. It was a revelation after the raleigh, weighs about half as much, and is still sat in my dads garage with all the original bits on, biopace, u-brake etc
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I always wanted an Overbury's Pioneer though!

I seem to have ticked off a few of people's bikes of the decade!

First bike - Muddy Fox Courier Comp 1990

Second bike - Kona Explosif Pro 1992

Third bike - Specialized Stumpjumper M2 1996

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