Most wanted – iconic mountain bikes

Here is my bucket list of bikes, ranging from an early days wish list to the present day. Suspect I have missed a few! Please feel free to add to the list.

Specialized Stumpjumper
Mountain Goat Whiskeytown Racer
GT Xizang
Klein Attitude
Roberts Dogs BOLX
Fat Chance Yo Eddy
Ibis Mojo
Knolly Endorphin

Marin Bear Valley – I lusted after one of these for most of my young teenage years but never had the money for it.

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Pace RC100/200/300

Evil Sovereign – I built one up last year

GT Lobo, had one and loved it… If I could get a 2×10 version that weighed under 30lbs I’d be all over it like a fat kid on cake.

Mountain Cycle: San Andreas.

Definitive in my opinion.

Raleigh Activator 2

Always lusted after a Yeti Ultimate 🙂

I’ll second the mountain Cycle: San Andreas.

Awesome machine at the time especially. That and…

Yeti ARC
Zaskar LE

Santa Cruz Blur 4X
new Banshee Rune looks nice http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Banshee-Rune-2013.html
Transition Bandit

but no need for me to look as I’m on a Mojo SL which will do me until my legs fall off 😀

Fisher cr-7 Fisher rs-1

1992 Marin Team Titanium. I’d settle for a Pine Mountain or Indian Fire Trail though.
Kona Hei Hei Titanium, 100mm travel – one of the last ones?
GT Zaskar reissue from a couple of years back.
A new 2013 Heckler would be nice.
And always fancied a really trick Kona Dawg – think they did one in scandium for a year or so.
Top of the range Orange 5, purely because everyone I’ve spoken to with one raves about them.
Cotic Soda.

Always wanted the Fuquay that Chipps reviewed in MTB Pro…

GT LTS

Mountain Cycles San Andreas

The square tubed pace from the early 90s

Specialized FSR Enduro 2001-2004.
Id say the Zaskar was more iconic the Xizang though. Kinda summed up the ’90’s do it all bikes of the time.
Kona Explosif (prestige steel frame).

ATX990 just like Rob W in Chainspotting.

Hey Rusty Spanner,

Here is my Marin Team Titanium gathering dust, but due for a rebuild soon! http://www.herfie.cc/2012/11/16/bike-shelves/

Rusty spanner

Do you seriously want a Cotic Soda? I have one that I could be persuaded to part with.

Santa Cruz bull it, kona explosif

Kirk Revolution

🙂

but more seriously:

Kona Cindercone
Pace RC500
Santa Cruz Heckler

And more recently, Niner Air9

San Andreas. Yep. Right up there.
To me the definitive MTB always has been the 1991-on Kona Explosif. They got them RIGHT and steel handrails the world over owe Kona a beer for that design. 🙂

Do either of you want to buy a kidney?

Not in tip-top condition and I’ve lost the receipt.

Rusty, pity about your kidney quality as the Soda is in great condition. Build has it down to 20.2ibs. Lovely bike.

Without doubt the San Andreas – incredible bike!
Plus the carbon GT LTS
and possibly a Pro Flex 956 with Z1’s

All lusted after at some point or another

added to the above…one of them would have to have Spin wheels….and I would wear a Rox t-shirt while riding them….ahhhh the 90’s

Nobody wants a Courier?

The only thing that has ever appealed to me is building one of those bikes in the cupertino riders photo. sort of cruiser with cowhorns

I’ll second the Proflex 956 and Mountain Cycles San Andreas
Giant ATX1 DH
Trek Y22 ( I owned one years ago and would buy one again)
Pace RC 100 ball burnished with yellow Magura rim brakes and panaracer smoke & dart tyres in that fetching light tan colour.
GT LTS carbon
GT Zaskar with purple trick bits, Judy Sl forks and XTR V brakes.

Cotic Soul (current bike)
Ibis Mojo

Probably loads more but can’t think.

Some people have a very funny idea of early days! Santa Cruz Blur – really? Cotic Soda is very recent too.

Original list looks pretty spot on although as someone mentioned the Pace is missing.

Also what about Funk, Alpinestars TiMega, Marin Team Ti (mentioned above), Dave Yates Donkis Nob or if you wanted to go really early you could look for an Overburys Pioneer or maybe a Dawes Ranger, or even an English Cycles Highpath.

Oh – don’t forget the early Orange Clockwork (the really old hand built ones) or the slightly later Prestige, Aluminium O, or Aluminium Elite for some nice UK retro action.

Anything with more suspension than a Rockshox Mag1, Manitou 1, or Girvin Flexstem is not old enough in my book for a question like this.

Unless you are talking about the original Manitou suspension frame with adapted Manitou 1 forks on the back, or even the original Manitou aluminium hardtail.

Turner Burner – from the first time around – has got to be in there IMO as iconic.

A Trimble. Or an Ibis Bow Ti. Already got a GT RTS and it’s brilliant…

jimster – Member
Always wanted the Fuquay that Chipps reviewed in MTB Pro…

My mate has one, Tange Ultmate Ultrastrong tubes

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I had this for a while;

Childhood dream bike. Custom built in 1999 and left in a cupboard until I found it on ebay 10 years later.
Shock blew up every time I looked at it.

For me, Ritchey Softtail, Plexus or the team issue bikes with the extended seat tubes

San Andreas definately.
Giant ATX1
Pace RC100
Marin Quake/Mt Vision/B17 (the single pivot one)
Proflex 856
Heckler
Cannodale Killer V/Raven
Surely an Inbred must be here by now? Maybe an Orange 5?
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Notice how GT have rather a lot?
Zaskar
LTS (and LTS-STS)
Lobo
RTS

Fat Chance Yo Eddy in aqua fade

My old (’98) matt black Orange P7 custom build that some c***s stole weeks after I finished it.

Merlin Titanium

Klein Attitude (blue green fade paint job… noticing a theme here!)

Fat Chance Ti Fat – with blue Ringle Zooka stem

I’m hard now, that’s enough…..

I’ll throw the Mantis Pro-Floater into the mix.

And the Apollo Creed…..

Bontrager Race OR – only bike I would never sell and absolutely iconic of its era from my point of view. Understated engineering brilliance.

Brooklyn SR8 <3