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My two most ridden bikes have been listed above.. Club Roost XC4 Enduro and Coyote Ultralite HT4.. both a good 15/20 years old but still ride really well..
Mountain Cycle?
Ballistic Forks?
No need for a thread here, they’re all conveniently listed in the On one sale page already!
I was actually going to ask whether this thread was a Planet X marketing exercise.
1990 Karrimor Jaguar 63 SA in blue/grey - with the additional clip-on pockets.
I have some Maverick DUC forks and a set of ZZYXX forks in the cellar. Can't wait for triple clamp XC forks to come back into fashion.
Halson of inverted fork fame...
I'm still riding my Maverick, terrific bike.
Nuke Proof - the most desirable carbon bits back in the day.
Club Roost
Trans-X
Kalloy
Haven't seen any Univega bikes for a while
@PrinceJohn, I think Only Club roost of those is dead, and even thenb you can still buy Club Roost stuff (but I don't know there's a connection).
Nukeproof is now a CRC brand, Tranz-X is still a massive manufacturer in Taiwan, they just sell less own brand stuff now (but you still see it) and Kalloy is also still around but less own-brand stuff.
@benpinnick the Nukeproof one was slightly tongue in cheek, given the difference between the original brand & how it sits today.
I didn't know both Tranz-X & Kalloy were still going tho.
Dialled Bikes- they used to be pretty revered on STW. They disapeared for a few years, around the advent of 650b. Mike focused on BMX and then moved to the US.
Now they are back but making one expensive frame, with a barely legible website and lots of info missing. Shame really. Feels half baded, like he's just capitlising on the days of old. No real media, and social media only being updated once a month. Still, wish Dialled & Mike all the best.
Hot Chili
DDG the Shooter was on my want list back in the day, then there was the Hitman full suss frame.
Mongoose, as a maker of decent bikes. For a few years they has a weird dual existence with two completely separate ranges - "proper" bikes, and BSOs sold, I believe, exclusively in Walmart. They've not been distributed in the UK for a while and having just looked on their website, certainly on the MTB side, it looks like BSOs only these days. Not sure if their BMX range is any different (I don't really know my BMXs).
Doesn't Chris Akrigg still ride a (assumedly not BSO) Mongoose?
Dialled have 2 frames on the website? trail bike (Alpine) and a DJ/Slalom/mess about bike (hotrod)? Not hideous money either.
Mongoose, as a maker of decent bikes. For a few years they has a weird dual existence with two completely separate ranges – “proper” bikes, and BSOs sold, I believe, exclusively in Walmart. They’ve not been distributed in the UK for a while and having just looked on their website, certainly on the MTB side, it looks like BSOs only these days. Not sure if their BMX range is any different (I don’t really know my BMXs).
It's odd that Chris Akrigg still rides for them.. He's a phenomenal rider and most of his riding videos are viewed by the MTB community I imagine, yet they don't have a serious MTB for sale. Half the bikes he rides aren't even available to buy.
Machine Tech
Zinn (British)
Monolith
Formula 1
Chuck?
I still miss my old Spooky Metalhead...
What happened to Brooklyn Machine Works?
@ tomhoward - I’d call $900 for a Dialled Bikes Alpine frame fairly hideous money....
What happened to Brooklyn Machine Works?
Dunno, thought they were still going but looks like the FaceBook page was last updated 2 years ago, with pics of touring bikes and hipster fixies.
Pharrell Williams bought the company (BMW) and turned it into a hipster brand before it went bust.
Answer are now called Pro Taper. Beats me why.
They're part of the Manitou / Hayes group of companies, oddly both "answer" an "Pro-taper" now make bars (and stems, and pedals).
Mongoose, as a maker of decent bikes. For a few years they has a weird dual existence with two completely separate ranges – “proper” bikes, and BSOs sold, I believe, exclusively in Walmart. They’ve not been distributed in the UK for a while and having just looked on their website, certainly on the MTB side, it looks like BSOs only these days. Not sure if their BMX range is any different (I don’t really know my BMXs).
Mongoose still exist, they make a dirtjump frame and the teocali still exists as a 4-bar design rather than the old i-drive.
From BMW website...
Loads from the nineties - Grafton, Cook Bros Racing, Gravity Research, Zero, Marinovative, OnZa, Moonhead, Funk, Cunningham (bit sad that one), the list could go on all day.
Ah **** most of these have already been mentioned.
Dialled have 2 frames on the website? trail bike (Alpine) and a DJ/Slalom/mess about bike (hotrod)? Not hideous money either.
$900 (£693) for a Reynolds 631 frame with little to no R&D, plus you'll need to pay import tax & fees. That's damn expensive. Makes a Cotic look good value. Where's the added value over any other bike brand? It's not brand tax, it's not a race team, it's not R&D, it's not paint and it's not the website..
Overbury's a bike shop in Bristol who made their own bikes. I very nearly bought the Pioneer in 1988 but in the end went for a Robert's White Spider custom frame. I might well have bought the Overbury's but the day I was in the area was a Wednesday and it turned out they didn't open then.
Tbh I had only looked at the hotrod when I posted that, $5-600 iirc, assumed they’d both be the same
Buy a bike seem to have the club roost name stuck on all sorts of stuff so I'm assuming they bought it at some point. I remember the echoing "crack" of a friend snapping some original go-fast riser bars in some silent woods.....
Quasar suspension forks.
Parkpre (Mrs used to race for them)
Sachs (pre-Sram buyout)
Is Control Tech still around?
Alpinestars ‘as a kid’…. Fill your boots!
Now this I find interesting - funny isn't it how much knowledge we now have with the internet compared to when we were young when the only real source of info was MBUK
My first MTB was a Townsend with splattered black over green paint, the “Gas-Pipe Special” to my friends.
I'll thing you'll find that was an ATB and not MTB 🙂 In our group of friends we had a mix of these and Falcon Cheetahs - if you saw a Muddy Fox or the like, well, they must have been the super rich!!
What ever happened to 24seven? THere was a time when those 24" wheels were everywhere
How about Tomac Bikes. When I started MTB as a kid I used to dream of having a Tomac DH bike. Now it exists as nothing more than a On-One marketing exercise of chinses BSOs, and even that is scaling down.
Is Control Tech still around?
They were still on CRC not so long ago, I assumed they were a hotlines brand now?
How about Tomac Bikes. When I started MTB as a kid I used to dream of having a Tomac DH bike. Now it exists as nothing more than a On-One marketing exercise of chinses BSOs, and even that is scaling down.
I think they bought the brand and John Tomac kicked off, not sure what happened next but I guess he won or they caved in.
My first MTB was a Townsend with splattered black over green paint, the “Gas-Pipe Special” to my friends.
I’ll thing you’ll find that was an ATB and not MTB In our group of friends we had a mix of these and Falcon Cheetahs – if you saw a Muddy Fox or the like, well, they must have been the super rich!!
Yeah Dammit the horrid day glow pinking red MTB I bought in about 1990 or 1991 was actually a Townsend not an Emmelle. I was misremembering.
Heavy steam pipe steel frame with cheap welding and some sort of non branded group set with ultra-cheap chromed chain set. The chrome was so cheap that spots of rust would appear on the steel underneath. Same with the rims. All made in China.
Worst bike I ever owned.
Townsend became a sort of by-word for shit bikes between me and my brother lol.
You used to see lots of Townsends.
What ever happened to 24seven? THere was a time when those 24″ wheels were everywhere
And also, 24 bicycles? of Le Toy and pornking fame. Seen mainly doing massive hucks down flights of stairs BITD
Lahar Bikes is another one. The owner, Aaron, ended up unable to meet demand and kept a load of riders money. Sad end to an exciting company. Yes, that is an interanl geared hub. Essentially a Carbon Zeroed before they even existed.
a Muddy Fox
These only existed as legends in my neck of the woods. Anyone riding one of these would have attained mythical status.
The most exotic MTB's we would realistically see people riding were Raleigh Mirages, maybe with the triangle bag thing in the frame corner for extra kudos.
Shock Works suspension forks?
Also, while Progressive Suspension are still going, they went back to making motorcycle stuff only. Their 5th Element rear shock used to be EVERYWHERE, it came factory fitted on my brother's Santa Cruz Bullit.
Mt Zefal
Still about and still blowing up tyres. My tubeless inflator thing is made by Zefal.
Wasn't Al Carter Townsend's "premium" brand? Final throwing together / shoving in boxes for all of them was somewhere near Wigan.
Nokian still going?
edit. Yep, but only car tyres.
RIP 3 inch gazzaloddi as seen below!
I always lusted after a Fuquay
Balfa!
Nice to see that the rest of the MTB world have finally caught up with the whole high pivot/idler pulley thing for DH.
The BB7 was a beast, basically 2004 in bike form.
Wasn’t Al Carter Townsend’s “premium” brand? Final throwing together / shoving in boxes for all of them was somewhere near Wigan.
Defiantly not in 1991 or so.
As a kid I was embarrassed to own one.
Good call on TwentyFourSeven. The Darkangel was a great bike. I've got some of their bars in the garage that are about 4mm thick, utter brutes!
Nishiki. A lad in the club I used to ride with had an Alien that I hankered after.
Kirk with the magnesium frames!
I had a pair of these. Hanson upside down forks.
They were awful. Huge amount of play in them from right out the box. LBS sent them back and I paid extra for some Manitou 2's that I LOVED.
Revell bikes
Base bikes
Static bikes
All fairly common at dirt jumps circa 10 years ago