Bike brands you don't hear of anymore

Rotwild, Spooky, Foes….anymore

Principia, thought of my ~20 year old green RSL that I sold for peanuts over ten years ago, because I hadn’t done a decent road ride in years. How things change over time!

Foes is a good one. I remember that fork being for sale on CRC for aaages at £2,000, thinking it was craazy money..

Is Club Roost still going?

Fuquay.

Klein, I remember one of my riding mates at the time having one when we turned up for the Malvern festival in 97 (I think). It was a thing of beauty!

shermer75 – Member
Foes is a good one. I remember that fork being for sale on CRC for aaages at £2,000, thinking it was craazy money..

Oh bloody hell yes used to laugh at that & now look at the price of forks.

Oh bloody hell yes used to laugh at that & now look at the price of forks.

I know!!!!

Klein, I remember one of my riding mates at the time having one when we turned up for the Malvern festival in 97 (I think). It was a thing of beauty!

I still have one, and it is! 🙂

Muddy Fox – one of the originators.

Universal Cycles bought the name years ago and killed it overnight. 🙁

Brooklyn Machine Works – awesome bonkers DH bikes hand built in New York. I had a Racelink and a Park bike.
Small underground company with a great fan base that fell apart when the hat wearing **** Pharell Williams bought his way in and they started appearing in his music videos and on stage. Result was the fastest way to uncool a company. Doc left the company, Fixie hipster crap started taking over from the mtb side of things and it pretty well all died from there.

MS Racing
Checker Pig
Smokestone/Bigfoot
Tushingham (Am sure there are details about them in a filing cabinet somewhere)
Trimble
Breezer
Boulder
American
Clark Kent
AMP Research
Nishiki
Mantis
Bridgestone
I could go on….

Bontrager (along with Klein) bought up and then killed off by Trek (boycotted for life).

Alpinestars, my first proper mtb was a Cro mega DX

Quaser Racing Forks.

(i so wanted one, I even sent off a sae to receive a paper catalogue back in the post)

Tushingham (Am sure there are details about them in a filing cabinet somewhere)

Boom tish! 😆

Bontrager (along with Klein) bought up and then killed off by Trek (boycotted for life).

And Gary Fisher. Trek are missing a trick by not resurrecting these brands.

Pace
Zinn
Cunningham
Slingshot
Schwinn
Diamond Back
GT
Offroad

Middleburn.

Bullseye.

Gravity Research.

Bullet Bros.

Power Grips.

Axo.

Sachs.

Still got some Quasar forks in the attic.

My Mrs rode for Parkpre (1995). Nice bikes for the time.

Sachs bike parts (bought by Sram in 97).

Univega
Offroad / Proflex

Roach
X Lite?
Pro Flex

I’m here all week, YoKaiser. Do try the veal piccata…

Mountain Cycle just disappeared.

Middleburn are still with us.

Singular seems to have dropped from view of late.

I’m throwing Corratec in here. There was a few years where they really seemed to take off in the uk and then they disappeared. I’m sure they’re still going but not in the uk.

Sunn

Bontrager

Keith seems happy enough to have the components keep his name.

Iron Horse
Rock Lobster

what was that massive brand you used to see at all the races in the 90s.. did a full range from kids’ to top full sussers.. ooh it’s on the tip of my tongue!

Omg Mountain Cycle!

Sunn
Merlin titanium
Rocky Mountain
Fat chance
Xlite
Avocet

There was a time when this was super desirable lol

Oooh! Fournales! Caramba Double Barrels!

DeKerf

Sunn
Merlin titanium
Rocky Mountain
Fat chance

Really? All going pretty strong. Not 100% sure about Merlin, I’ll admit. Sunn have a strong 2018 range out, Rocky Mountain make some of the nicest looking bikes on the market today, and Fat Chance?

Hubbah hubbah.

Fat Chance are back building lovely bikes.

MS Racing became Alpinestars.

Think Trek still sell Klein branded bikes somewhere around the world? Maybe the far east? Hate Trek for hoovering up brands just to nick the tech then cast them aside.

Rocky Mountain, Pace, Slingshot, Schwin, Diamond Back, GT are all still going FWIR.

PACE are still going…just.

Outland

Haven’t heard much of Ventana lately either

Chumba…I had a lovely hardtail from them guys. still big in the US of A
https://www.chumbausa.com/

Townsend. Just beyond BSO to be acceptable, and crucially, attenable as a kid. Luckily my parents chipped into my bike savings and I got a GT talera. 🙂

X – Lite.

Fred Salmon (makes me think “pink“).

X – Lite

Weren’t they another brand Brant tried to resurrect?