Remember them? The days when things just got so loony overbuilt that unless you were Josh Bender they were next to useless?

Let’s go back in time a little…

Basically engine less motorbikes.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkcbp0YewKQ[/video]

The silly sod. 🙄

That first bike is amazing! What is it?

Ace!

Sintesi Bazooka with some uber cool forks. Questionable angles, though!

Brooklyn Machine Works. A Race-Link. BONKERS!

DezB, not sure. Cropped up while looking at Monster T forks, which reminded me of all of the lunacy that went with the period!

ooh! I nearly got one of those Sintesis!

Holy Sh1t, has that Sintesi been ridden into a concrete wall at high speed or did the designer get his maths wrong? That HA is sooo wrong

Has anyone gone back and landed Bender’s huck?

That first bike is amazing! What is it?

I think it was built for him by Karpiel.

Bet it didn’t handle very well on anything other than cliff drops. 😆

First bike is a Brooklyn – http://www.brooklynmachineworks.com/site/bikes/racelink/racelink1.html

I used to have a Norco A-Line in Root Beer (shit brown), with Monster T’s.

They were quite good forks, except after virtually every long run such as the Pleney you had to bleed air out of them.

More from Brooklyn.

A Supertrucker

A Masterplan

Stufield, it’s not a Racelink, I’m sure. I’m feeling a bit of Ellsworth about it.

Am I the only one that thought Bender was a handful of rebound damping away from being much successful?

I admit to thinking of getting a RM9 (or maybe a RM7?). See me huck off a kerb!

That videos brilliant, “gotta go big”… splat! Bet his klankers took a while to get back to thier normal position.

Brilliant.. Not seen the 1st one before )

and the Nicolai.. Gotta have Germany represented in the ‘what would Slayer ride?’ bike category.

First bike is a Canfield

Am I the only one that thought Bender was a handful of rebound damping away from being much successful?

If he’d had someone to set his forks up properly, he may have landed a few more hucks 😆

Could well be a Canfield Fatty Fat.

Good spot, Legend.

Ah, Josh Bender, MTBing’s own Evel Knievel: Going BIG and crashing…

GO BIG OR (CRASH AND) GO HOME (OR THE HOSPITAL)

This Karpiel must take prize for highest bb 😯 (another Bender bike)

When a San Andreas goes baaaaad

does this count ? http://www.wooyek.pl/a/balfa/balfa2009b.jpg

Good god!!! None of those are big or clever…why??? Why goddammit???

[*]Oddly, this was super fast, so may not really qualify for this thread….

A ’99 Scott Octane World Cup. A Peter Denk design, IIRC. Seat to allow movement forward a la motocross bike. Twin shock for better bumpage. Adjustable head tube angle way ahead of it’s time.

Sold a few of these back in the day. A classic, IMHO.

Josh Bender, bigger balls than brains thats for sure!

plus 1 for the San Andreas……….

Another Peter Denk design.

What’s interesting is that, apart from the big “drop to flat” at the end of bender’s video, the rest of the stuff was a)landed really badly, and b)would be “nothing” in modern day free ride standards!

It seems to me that he thought “bigger bike = better riding”!!!
Some of those bikes look like clown bikes!!!

DrP

Dear God, all these things actually make Orange 5’s look a bit good looking.

Shock technology has come on a long way since these days, that helps a lot.

Not got the slightest interest in downhill but I’m enjoying this thread. Keep the pics coming, some of the angles on these old bikes are insane.

I think it took a while to realise the technology/science is in. The Damping, not simply the travel!

DrP

totally mad hijak (sorry folks)

Loddrik- you liked mavericks didn’t you? do you know anyone after a large black ML7 and duc 32’s by any chance?

I Love Foes!