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Mt Zefal
Still about and still blowing up tyres. My tubeless inflator thing is made by Zefal.
Wasn't Al Carter Townsend's "premium" brand? Final throwing together / shoving in boxes for all of them was somewhere near Wigan.
Nokian still going?
edit. Yep, but only car tyres.
RIP 3 inch gazzaloddi as seen below!
I always lusted after a Fuquay
Balfa!
Nice to see that the rest of the MTB world have finally caught up with the whole high pivot/idler pulley thing for DH.
The BB7 was a beast, basically 2004 in bike form.
Wasn’t Al Carter Townsend’s “premium” brand? Final throwing together / shoving in boxes for all of them was somewhere near Wigan.
Defiantly not in 1991 or so.
As a kid I was embarrassed to own one.
Good call on TwentyFourSeven. The Darkangel was a great bike. I've got some of their bars in the garage that are about 4mm thick, utter brutes!
Nishiki. A lad in the club I used to ride with had an Alien that I hankered after.
Kirk with the magnesium frames!
I had a pair of these. Hanson upside down forks.
They were awful. Huge amount of play in them from right out the box. LBS sent them back and I paid extra for some Manitou 2's that I LOVED.
Revell bikes
Base bikes
Static bikes
All fairly common at dirt jumps circa 10 years ago
Great thread. As interested in the components as the bikes. The bits I spent hours looking at.
Taking a trip down memory lane.
Pony. Not at all Pony.
The rival to shimano back in the 80's, Suntour.
I know they still make stuff under the SR Suntour name, but were the groupset of choice on many bikes back in the day.
ZOOM ? stems on lots of bikes in the 90's, they still around?
Mike Ashley will be taking notes.
Sunn - used to make some great 24" BMX and mtbs were raced by DH world champs
Pace
And whyte used to be cutting edge with those PRST forks...
Fisher before they were a Trek brand then killed off. I had a Hoo Koo E Koo which I loved until I crumpled the fork riding down a railway embankment. Also lusted after the e-stay Montare... Funny to see that idea kind of return with dropped chainstay designs.
Kooka components - the ano fade cranks and matching chainrings!
Mentioned on the first page but 1995'ish I had the Blue bag and the blue logo T,
I used the bag for school and zipped tied some old cassette sprockets on to look extra cool.
...Also, those Animal T-shirts that faded over time, that was a few weeks pocket money
Oh the 90's....was it just me that sent the forms off to MTB companies to get a posted catalogue, then kept them in a big file? like at 15 I could get the 2 grand together to buy a GF Pro Caliber
Oh and Heavy Tools DJ bikes!
Good call on TwentyFourSeven. The Darkangel was a great bike
My first downhill bike.. It was a steel beast of a bike! Weighed as much as a family hatchback.
Don't have any photos of my own one.
Pace
you might want to check the front page of this site....
I had an RC100, two RC200s and still got my RC300, Pace don’t exist anymore in my eyes.
TNT components? had a really nice set of their cranks with gold Pace rings, until the cranks snapped!
Answer are now called Pro Taper. Beats me why.
Aye, you’d have to wonder why Hayes Group didn’t just rechristen them MRP as they did with White Bros.