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  • Bike brands you don't hear of anymore
  • qwerty
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    Weren’t they another brand Brant tried to resurrect?

    Thats the trouble, lots of “original” brands closed, but the name brought & relaunched with no connection to the oringinal company bar the name. Ie: Ibis, Onza etc

    X-lite | The Muc-Off story | Pt 1

    qwerty
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    D.N.A. Titanium frames.

    Morati titanium components (i have a Ti 26″ fork).

    munrobiker
    Free Member

    Qwerty – the Ibis relaunch was led by the original chap.

    qwerty
    Free Member

    Qwerty – the Ibis relaunch was led by the original chap.

    I stand corrected but you get my drift.

    DezB
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    Whoever said Rocky Mountain clearly not a user of the Singletrackworld.com website (is that still going?)
    http://singletrackworld.com/?s=rocky+mountain

    hypnonewt
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    Iron horse are still going just in BSO form in America.
    Emmelle although I dont think they were ever any good anyway.

    qwerty
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    Venhill.

    dickyhepburn
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    My brother had a Klein, I had a Peugeot (Total team edition, sweet)

    qwerty
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    Kooka.

    DezB
    Free Member

    My kid had a lovely Haro a few years back. They seem to have abandoned MTBs.

    What the hell was that 90s brand? Bugging me!

    al2000
    Full Member

    Cove ain’t what they used to be.

    jmatlock
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    Funk.

    DezB
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    Another one just come to mind… begins with S I think. Mate had a white hardtail from CRC, but their full sussers were more common. My old brain is dyin.

    TheGingerOne
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    Diamond Back
    Iron Horse
    Ellsworth
    Dia Compe
    Tioga
    Local Motion
    Breezer
    Funk

    P-Jay
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    All the ones I could think of have been mentioned.

    I seem to recall Iron Horse died in 2008/9 victim of the credit crunch, as far as I remember they sold the Sunday that was THE DH to have at the time thanks to Sam Hill but I couldn’t name another one of their bikes, I doubt you can make a successful bike co from DH sales alone.

    Cove are all but dead sadly, down to 4 frames, a Hummer which is there’s, the Hustler which is an off-the-shelf Chinese frame with a few Cove bits (or was that the old one) the Shocker the which isn’t massively different to the one I bought 10 years ago and wasn’t new then and the G-Spot which is 8 years old – can’t imagine they’re still making 26” wheeled Enduro and DH bikes, they’ve just been sat on the shelf for a very, very long time.

    I wasn’t aware Klein were dead, I only ever saw their crazy airbrushed frames ridden by old beardy guys, assumed they still made them on the quiet and you’d only see them leaning against a beer garden bench surrounded by pints of real ale.

    hypnonewt
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    Handsomedog, DDG, 24SEVEN.
    I know HSD was allterraincycles own brand and they stoped making them but they got good reviews back in the day.
    No idea about DDG but the shooter was a great bike for dirt jumping at the time.

    P-Jay
    Free Member

    Ellsworth are still going, they’re just not completely gopping anymore so they’re not so easy to spot.

    qwerty
    Free Member

    Cook Bros.

    Egg.

    Malvern Rider
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    KHS
    Alpine Stars
    Identiti
    Checker Pig

    Prob all still around in some form but never really hear of them

    BillMC
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    Maverick

    DezB
    Free Member

    Independent Fabrications been mentioned?

    TheGingerOne
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    Anyone remember I think they were called ‘Red Titanium” – Titanium frames from \ made with Russian Ti?

    Also I think Ozone and Bigfoot?

    DezB
    Free Member

    Sintesi!

    hypnonewt
    Free Member

    Identiti have just brought out a new one called the mettle.

    davidtaylforth
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    Rock Lobster still make really nice bikes
    Spooky still make reasonably nice bikes

    Still see loads about on the internet!

    Some more brands that’re extinct/don’t hear much of

    Azonic
    24seven
    Schwinn
    Cortina
    Mr Crud
    Avent
    Balfa
    24
    .243racing
    Morewood

    shermer75
    Free Member

    Quite a surprisingly large amount of these bikes companies are still around in pretty much the same way as before, so it’s interesting that we think that they aren’t! Maybe it’s because the way we get our bike related info is different- I for one rarely read a mag anymore and a lot of the local bike shops are either closed or had to change their range, so maybe that is why..

    DezB
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    How did Sintesi ever die with beauties like this

    and this!

    P-Jay
    Free Member

    Has that DH been crashed? It’s got a 90 degre head angle.

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

    It’s not the Chumba of old. Those two guys just bought the name.

    Alan Kang destroyed Chumba. His rich Daddy bought him the company to play with… it didn’t end well. Think he must have been taught by Tony Ellsworth….

    peanutcracknell
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    Rst
    Zero
    Control tech??
    Royce
    Grove innovations
    Trimble
    Kirk
    Parkpre?
    Bullet bros
    Cook bros
    Azonic

    Oh, and pulstar, machine tech and advanced systems I think it was, they made titanium spokes iirc.

    P-Jay
    Free Member

    Quite a surprisingly large amount of these bikes companies are still around in pretty much the same way as before, so it’s interesting that we think that they aren’t! Maybe it’s because the way we get our bike related info is different- I for one rarely read a mag anymore and a lot of the local bike shops are either closed or had to change their range, so maybe that is why..

    Maybe, I’ve been checking a few of them out – I assumed Foes was gone, but nope they’ve gone a pretty comprehensive range of frames available – but they seem to be direct sale without much marketing to push the brand.

    DezB
    Free Member

    Barracuda

    (still not remembered that other one. Bugging me rotten!)

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    Carlton. I used to pass their factory on the way to school.

    orangeboy
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    Royce are still very much going just most of us don’t look for taper B.B. anymore.

    They have some loverly gold ti hubs on there website

    And rst still make Loads of forks

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    Rotwild still going strong so strike them off the list
    https://www.rotwild.com

    DezB
    Free Member

    Got it – Jamis.

    Think they’re still going but just not over here?

    davidtaylforth
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    Amoeba
    Roox
    Sunline

    orangeboy
    Free Member

    Barracuda became cuda, still Moore large in derby

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    Bigfoot?

    New frame has been designed but i guarantee 99% of the users here will hate it

    Sonor
    Free Member

    Foes are still going, as are Ventana. Jamis are still sold in the UK through Evans I think.

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