Mountain Cycle frames?

hi,

i'm looking for some advice about Mountain Cycle frames. CRC have a bunch of these on sale atm, at seemingly good prices.

I've not heard of these before (perhaps because of the stupid name), so i'm looking for your help!

HR

Mountain Cycle are one of the legendary brand that just make great bikes. They've been going for years and years. The San Adreas is on of the all time classic MTB frames. Superb kit, and superb service from what I hear too. Just a bit blow the radar these days. 🙂

Great bikes – The San Andreas is a legendary frame.

I think the CRC bikes are USA designed and manufactured elsewhere but I expect they are none the worse for that.

The Fury frame looks bloody good value to me and looks considerably more expensive than it is.

5 inch travel CNC'd bits, Anodised and a RS shock 450 what's not to like?

Truly groundbraking? I think so –

http://www.mountaincycle.com/about-us/history/san-andreas

In fact I've just decided to buy one "for the missus" ahem.

Any of you guys calling the San Andreas "legendary" ever ridden one?

Hopefully they'll be better now, but they used to be a nightmare for fatigue damage and the welds failing (clicky for pictures).

They used to have a lifetime warranty, which they were happy about honouring (with the latest/nearest model if the failed frame had been discontinued), but I think it's only two years now.

I bought an original Shockwave in 2000, had four of those (all failed on the same weld), two Sins (both failed on the same welds), and two San Andreas DNAs (the second one of which I eventually gave away, only for the recipient to discover the shock mount had failed). I also had a Moho, but I didn't bother getting that warranted, cos to my surprise, the insurance covered it, so I got a Pace RC300 instead.

Yup and I liked it, it bobbed a bit but a platform sorts that.

I like single pivots though.

Funny this thread has come up.. i'm a front mech away from finished building mine up !
Would you like a piccie?

YES!

sorry, caps lock, yes please. im not that desperate lol.

sure, piccie please. They seem good value atm, just a bit unkeen to spend £500 on a frame made by a small company i know little about…

but the price, god, is still berry berry good!

Things to be wary of…

I went from a Kinesis Maxlight xc2 frame with a fairly short headtube.. the steerer tube is borderline… i'm using it as an excuse to get some pikes soon.

The green looks way better in real life than my ropey pictures.

Weight wise it feels like just over 30lbs, thats with 321 on hope xc and cheap cranks.

Feel free to pick fault in the scenery/photography skills – comments on the bike are welcome also.

I expect that now prodution has shifted to Taiwan all is likely to be well on the quality front..

They have a two year warranty as well and the design is good.

You want to mind that seatpost on the shock 😕

Seat post is fine, was working on the basis i did not want to cut too big a chunk off my thomson.
Easily rectified once i've settled on a riding position.

Got a rumble ltd ed from crc, gonna be a straight swap from my dying RM flow, the quality is v good, neat welds, lovely cnc work and the swapable dropouts are a nice touch, all in a very nice frame..and for £300 it's good value.
The headtube is a good inch longer then the RM flow and my steerer is short but a Sunline v one AM stem and Crank Bros directset will sort that.

They also have the only bike frame in the museum of modern art.

I'm sure it is, looks like a candidate for a gravity droopping do dad

Theres one off the world wide weird with a gravity dropper and a tartier build than mine by a fair way.

nickc – Member

Any of you guys calling the San Andreas "legendary" ever ridden one?

Not sure that anyone had to have ridden one to notice the difference in design compared to what else was around at the time the original SA was launched. Sure they may have ridden like shit compared to modern bikes but they were ground breaking bikes.

Morning William.

Fish had a SA with a big plate welded over the cracks. B had a HOMO & amazingly it didnt snap.

I have had both a Rumble and a Fury for a good few years


Really good frames

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3546/3519967438_1a4350bd8f.jpg
The bog snorkler – I love it!

can anyone give me a lowdown on the Fury and battery frames? I see they're both 5'' FS, but when it comes to geometry, i know very little!

I'm hoping to thrash it about in the peaks and take it to the student dh champs (bucs)…

HR

Walleater, with respect, it was shit. It was too high off the ground and it's wheel base was way too short, and TBH even given what was around then, it still rode like a bag-o-shite in comparison to more or less every thing else. Now that's not to say that they're weren't other shit full suss designs around, there were, after all no one really knew what they were doing (apart from a few notable exceptions) but for real, proper "Oh my god this bike is actually trying to kill me" terror the original SA was hard to beat.

Have a look at the following sites, should give all the info you want
http://forums.mtbr.com/forumdisplay.php?f=138
http://www.mountaincycle.com/

12.5 inch BB height which is an inch less than what I ride now and a wheel base I inch less than my current bike.

Chuckable compared to the 1998 heckler I compared it directly with.

I really like the look of that battery

THIS I rather like

Mines differs from the current Furys as it was made when they were owned by Easton, (steeper head angle) had Pikes but swapped them for 150mm travel Bombers to slacken the head angle a bit.

I had a Moho Slicks/ Slix about 4 or 5 years ago, imported the frame from Merica – cracking bike, but it was a wee bit too big for me as i am a short arse. my riding is mainly around Cannock, and had it down at Betwsy coed – no problems at all.
i would have kept it if i wisnae so wee.

Sangobeggar's Fury used to be my girl 🙁

Excellent sturdy single pivot. No issues here.