Show us your first ever full suspension bikes.

I think I just bought this off the classifieds!

You certainly haven't bought that one unless it comes complete with a split-in-two seat tube at the lower shock mount… That happened a few months after I sold it.

el_boufador – Member

Anyone got a pic of a proflex with rigid forks and a flex stem?

Know someone with one of them in their garage, unused for years, I'm sure they'd part with it if you're interested.

Sorry for the shocking bar ends, saddle bag, bottle cage etc……..

😳

bought second hand in 2001/2 to see if i would really bother with this offroad malarky.

pic above is after i chopped the seat pin and found a comfy(ish) saddle for the missus to use – she rode it for about four years.

Good old Mr T.

OK, so this was probably my first "proper" full sus bike.

It was an Alpinestars RSA840. Don't think I ever saw another in all the time I had it. Resplendent with it's ox blood Bombers 😆

Sorry about crap pictures, this was my first digital camera back in 2000.

that a muddy fox? or a mongoose – think fox due to paw print?

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2010 Spesh Enduro.

Cant fault it.Love it.

Marin B17 – Well before it's time. Great bike 🙂

my first was a heckler in 1997, but i have no pics
this was my second, turner rfx 98/99

My first and last – got pinched not longer this was taken. Went back to a hardtail with the insurance….

GT Halfrauds i-Drive BTW….

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rootes1 – Member

that a muddy fox? or a mongoose – think fox due to paw print?

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Poor detective work, the answer is out there 😉

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2unfit2ride – Member

epicyclo – Member

2unfit2ride – what was that bike?

Muddy Fox interactive, note the one shock for both ends
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not mine but I had one of these

And it certainly did not have bar ends on – used mainly for DH duties (step up from the Orange Clockwork I had been using) – the forks did not last too long so ended up sporting some RST triple clamp forks (3 pair – only slight less bendable then the Grivins) and some big Azonic DH Bars

http://i930.photobucket.com/albums/ad143/martin1501/Summer2009424.jpg?t=1271359956

I was a late starter with FS but worth the wait I think, '03 heckler, much changed and beefed up, but frame, shock and 1 brake still going strong, fave bike ever

http://i930.photobucket.com/albums/ad143/martin1501/Summer2009424.jpg?t=1271359956
1990 Offroad Proflex (Team Bike had full XT kit when i got it in 1992)

ATX D990 with BETD long travel plates (5.5") obligutary orange Z1's and X517 Lemon Wheels, ahh those were the days.

1996 Gt Lts Dh bought second hand from a drug dealer who had some debts to pay when . Nico Vouliouz bike this isnt my bike by the way

Aww those b-17s still look good! I always wanted one but never had the cash

Some real munters in here. Glad i was bmxing when you lot had to ride this lot.

I went 8 years without the luxury of fs. Like ht and fs now

Orange X2, '97 i think. Never really got on with it, partly because it was too small for me.

Don't have a pic but mine was a circa 1996/7 Marin Team DH, which had the same frame as the B17 I think, but was pearlesent white with an orange swing arm and a shit shockworks shock. Hinge Pig is the first thing that springs to mind, but won my first DH race on it, so can't have been that bad.

I had one of these as I was going through a gravity obsessed phase at the time. This one isn't mine but I did have the Boxxer Races with the high drop crown though.

I refuse to even look at pictures of my Pro-Flex Beast. Undoubtedly the worst bike I've ever owned (hardly ridden as it kept falling to bits).

Mine had an engine.. 1975

2010

Not this actual one though.

My mate now has this frame, 100mm of brilliant sus, I had a later 120mm afterward but it wasnt a patch on this one. Sometimes I guess less is more.

Exmoor Explorer. 2000. Hmmm. Might grow that beard again. Note Clive Powell Tshirt and walking boots. "Interesting" battery-operated Girvins. Lack of sun-cream…

Turner Stinger. But can't seem to upload pics properly. Anybody help me?

Algore – Member

Turner Stinger. But can't seem to upload pics properly. Anybody help me?

Click on the IMG tab. Enter the URL in the box. Save. 😉

Allow me…

Ellsworth ID

Mr Woppit – Member

Allow me…

Hmm. Dunno.

GT STS DH, back in 97'ish

I stole this picture!

I hated it, went back to hardtail.

Thanks Mr Woppit- glad it's not just me being a bit dim!