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Browsing Gumtree there is a rigid MTB built within a mile or two of me back in 1989. I can not recall ever reading about this builder before. "Bikes Milngavie" Highlander model. Good old Reynolds 531 frame and fork etc.
A quick google doesn't find anything apart from a possible road model on a Flickr page mainly dedicated to the well known Flying Scot bikes.
FLICKR.COM Anyone heard of them?
Very cool. Maybe worth asking Al at Wheelcraft if he knows anything. Or Keith at Killearn Cycles has been in the business a wee while.
I think that was the only one made.
Bikes of Milngavie was owned by Ronnie McKay I think these may have been built in a workshop at Bells Farm. Happy to be proved wrong.👍
Definitely not the only one made!
I still see Ronnie on his bike now and again.
Excellent,I had a set of wheels with those Mavic Paris Dakar hubs #80sflashback 🙂
Shame I already have 4 bikes in the shed or I would be tempted as a pub bike. I think 1989 was roughly when I bought my first MTB. A Trek 800 rigid.
Crying out for a 'gravel' bike conversion.
Aye,U brakes FTW 😉
Aye,U brakes FTW
They were terrible! Weighed about 1kg and clogged with mud on every ride.
Had one on a Fisher Hoo Koo e Koo back in 1988 ish...
I think there is one hanging in the new transport museum, in Glasgow.
Edit, I've just read the ad.....
U-brakes were horrid things! I had one of the first ‘88 Stumpjumpers in the country, and as said, the sodding things clogged up horribly at the first sign of damp off-road!
Also - purple grips! 😁
