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Mine's a comparative spring chicken.
1996 Trek 1400 roadie - bonded frame & forks not welded, but I occasionally get the squits halfway down a steep hill when I remember how old it is.
Must be loads of much older Zaskars, Marins, Cannondales etc still being used?
How old's yours?
recently flogged my '98 rockhopper A1. Still going strong.
I've (or rather my dad is still using) a 1986 Diamond Back Arrival - it may be the first production aluminium framed mountain bike, I'm not sure. The forks have been replaced a couple of times (when I raced it in the 80's) but other than that its mostly original kit.
Its even still got the Mountain Bike Club sticker with the St Bernard from the 1989 (I think) National Champs!
Like this (but smaller!):
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[url= http://www.mombat.org/MOMBAT/Bikes/1987_Diamond_Back_Arrival.html ]Details from Mountain Bike Museum[/url]
Still regularly ride my 1990 Cannondale SM700, complete with retrofitted Girvin FlexStem.
It sits on city rubber and is an awesome lightweight city bike. Still pretty good off-road with knobblies too. It's a shame I can't get any 'in period' Ground Controls anymore though....
40mpg - that's some small tubing for an Alu frame!
I'm still riding my 1993 Giant Cadex (the carbon ones that still had a carbon rear triangle). Great machine but I'm not sure i'd want to hammer it off-road so much these days...
I ride a 96 Zaskar occasionally and am about to build up a 95 Pantera that has had a few scrapes and dings. (Was my first real mountain bike and I want to have a play on it one more time)
that's some small tubing for an Alu frame!
That is one huge frame above! Must be about 23"! Mines an 18" I think, frame tubes (particularly seat stays) looked massive at the time compared to steel frames available then - think early Roberts, Overbury Pioneer etc
I have a 97 Zaskar that's been in continuous use, still hammer it as hard. Did a 12 and 6 hour race in it this year.
Two (yes, 2) 1998 Stumpjumper M2s. One HT, one fixed runaround road bike.
I've just completed a 1800km trip to Slovenia on my M trax Ti 2000 - mix of steel rear end, Ti main tubes with aluminum headtube all bonded together - was slightly disconcerting doing 50mph with a trailer down a pass and feeling the flex
99 Zaskar
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1984? Mountain Klein, currently being rebuilt/restored so it can get some more use 🙂
I've got a rigid 97 Klein too which still sees regular offroad use round the local red routes and natural stuff in Devon
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Now [i]that's[/i] a collector's item! I didn't even know they existed (started mountain biking in '88)
I very occasionally use a Pace RC200 F3 which I must have bought about 1994. Any fears about the frame giving way are nothing compared to my fear of the fork which is a Manitou also from the 90s and it 'twangs' alarmingly every time I apply the brakes (parallel drive XT v-brakes, very period).
1994 Marin Indian Fire Trail gets an occasional outing
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