You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
That Giant is the badger's nadgers, though.
2006 was almost 15 years ago. There are miniature humans walking around now who weren't even born in 2006.
It is nice to look at the bikes though. Wouldn't want to ride any of them. I didn't even want to ride my 2006 bike in 2007.
Pre 2000 would be a better cut off imo.
That Giant is the badger’s nadgers, though.
I hope you mean the Warner-esque MCM and not the dullsville one from 2005.
Of all of those, the Shaun Palmer Intense has aged the best I reckon.
I hope you mean the Warner-esque MCM and not the dullsville one from 2005.
Of course.
I be tempted to race something like this, (I still have my 2000 turner dhr hanging in the garage) then I remember how bad bikes were back then.
Try ID'ing young people for alcohol and realising they were born after the year 2000.
The Spesh Demo still looks like it could do the business.
Most of the others look way too short with really high BBs.
My oldest bike is a 2004 Stumpjumper hardtail.
I use it on the turbo. It already has rigid forks, I think if i put drops on it it would look like a modern roadbike
Used to have a Giant MCM990 back in the day. Full Xt Judy Sl. Bought it 97 or 98 so its doing well given its age
That 222 doesn't look as dated as the rest to my eyes.
The Warner Giant is clearly a lovely bit of kit though.
I'd say the DH9 looks the least dated tbh, pretty slack up front.
It's funny how squished they all look, my Shore is exactly the same and it looks terrible. Thankfully it rides better than it looks.
Mmmm
My bimble bike is a 2006 (I think) orange 5 pro hope......
The Spesh Demo still looks like it could do the business.
I lusted after a 2005-2006ish Demo 8, even a 9 back in the day. The LBS wouldn't / couldn't sell me. Apparently, and I say apparently because I've never trusted this lbs very much, Spesh at the time said there was no real call for them in the UK, so they only let a couple come here and you had to put your order in months before the new models were released. In the end the guy in the shop put his arm around me and whispered "sorry, I've ridden one, they're rubbish".
They weren't really DH bikes during that era, they were in the more fashionable, at the time, Freeride segment, so they weighed an absolute tonne, even by the standards of the day. The Big Hit, or Big Shit as they were sometimes known was the DH bike and that wasn't well liked either.
I actually sat on a Demo8 once at Cwmcarn, the owner admitted he only wanted it because of 'Roam' and the like, it was slow, rattly and prone to flexing, still looked so, so cool.
I had a Demo 7, it came with a Marzocchi 66 fork with a 1.5" steerer. I replaced it with a Boxxer and the bike ended up about two pounds lighter.
Yes, that's a front mech. And yes, it had top tube, seat tube, down tube, down tube to seat tube tube, seat tube to top tube tube, a top tube brance, and an extra set of chainstays above the swingarm.
680 bars?
My shopper has 740s and that feels impossibly narrow.
Of course the DH ‘Daddy’ of that era seems criminally unrepresented.
Maybe they were just too fast to photo on the day or maybe their reputation for being a bit fragile has meant none survive... but if there wasn’t a bright green Iron Horse Sunday there is be amazed.
My current daily beater is a 2006 Pace RC200. Works a treat, like they say, age is just a number.
2006 Stumpy was my main bike and only full susser until last year. The bang up to date bike that replaced it is so much better at flattering my limited abilities and to be honest I think I am still learning how to ride it but I wasn't really that much slower on the stumpy and it gave me a hell of a lot of fun.
My Soul is 2005....
I’ve spent a lot of time on here extolling the virtues of single pivot Marins.
After a summer of riding modern bikes I can confirm that it is indeed a twitchy, wallowy piece of shit.
How I set a lot of my koms on it I don’t know. Even riding it to the shops feels like I’m going to die.
My full susser is still a 2006 Kona Dawg, still puts a smile on my face and isn't likely to get upgraded anytime soon either.
I had this circa 2006:
Must have been an 02/03ish frame?
Heavy, overcomplicated a bit big for me TBH... Loved it.
Glad to see there's still at least one being raced somewhere a decade and a half later...
I’ve spent a lot of time on here extolling the virtues of single pivot Marins.
That's the problem with this place sometimes. People will sing the praises of whatever they're using. Bikes, suspension, tyres or whatever. Despite having never used anything newer and vastly improved.
Not picking on you in particular I've never seen your Marin posts.
Full on retro nerd here. The debate has been done to death but the overlords of retro quite rightly keep the cut off as 1998 (If I had my way it'd be 1995). Mid 2000's are just old bikes.
That 222 doesn’t look as dated as the rest to my eyes.
As someone had noted in the PB comments, it's still very much a current model for Orange...
2006/7 is peak retro for me as it's when I first seriously got into MTB. But like someone said we need the Iron horse Sunday there for me to feel acute pangs of nostalgia
I remember the 2008 moelfre uplift like it was yesterday, so many Big hits, Sundays, 224s, commy supreme FRs and box like V10s getting scratched to shit on that old farm trailer
The Big Hit, or Big Shit as they were sometimes known was the DH bike and that wasn’t well liked either.
There was nothing wrong with Big Hits, they were just the Citroen Saxo "clit car" segment of the mtb market.
Yes, that’s a front mech. And yes, it had top tube, seat tube, down tube, down tube to seat tube tube, seat tube to top tube tube, a top tube brance, and an extra set of chainstays above the swingarm.
What was with all the extra stays? I could never figure out what was going on there.
Citroen Saxo “clit car”
Errrr.... "Renault clito" surely?