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Rotwild, Spooky, Foes....anymore
Principia, thought of my ~20 year old green RSL that I sold for peanuts over ten years ago, because I hadn't done a decent road ride in years. How things change over time!
Foes is a good one. I remember that fork being for sale on CRC for aaages at £2,000, thinking it was craazy money..
Is Club Roost still going?
Fuquay.
Klein, I remember one of my riding mates at the time having one when we turned up for the Malvern festival in 97 (I think). It was a thing of beauty!
shermer75 - Member
Foes is a good one. I remember that fork being for sale on CRC for aaages at £2,000, thinking it was craazy money..
Oh bloody hell yes used to laugh at that & now look at the price of forks.
Oh bloody hell yes used to laugh at that & now look at the price of forks.
I know!!!!
Klein, I remember one of my riding mates at the time having one when we turned up for the Malvern festival in 97 (I think). It was a thing of beauty!
I still have one, and it is! 🙂
Muddy Fox - one of the originators.
Universal Cycles bought the name years ago and killed it overnight. 🙁
Brooklyn Machine Works - awesome bonkers DH bikes hand built in New York. I had a Racelink and a Park bike.
Small underground company with a great fan base that fell apart when the hat wearing ****tard Pharell Williams bought his way in and they started appearing in his music videos and on stage. Result was the fastest way to uncool a company. Doc left the company, Fixie hipster crap started taking over from the mtb side of things and it pretty well all died from there.
MS Racing
Checker Pig
Smokestone/Bigfoot
Tushingham (Am sure there are details about them in a filing cabinet somewhere)
Trimble
Breezer
Boulder
American
Clark Kent
AMP Research
Nishiki
Mantis
Bridgestone
I could go on....
Bontrager (along with Klein) bought up and then killed off by Trek (boycotted for life).
Alpinestars, my first proper mtb was a Cro mega DX
Quaser Racing Forks.
(i so wanted one, I even sent off a sae to receive a paper catalogue back in the post)
Tushingham (Am sure there are details about them in a filing cabinet somewhere)
Boom tish! 😆
Bontrager (along with Klein) bought up and then killed off by Trek (boycotted for life).
And Gary Fisher. Trek are missing a trick by not resurrecting these brands.
Pace
Zinn
Cunningham
Slingshot
Schwinn
Diamond Back
GT
Offroad
Middleburn.
Bullseye.
Gravity Research.
Bullet Bros.
Power Grips.
Axo.
Sachs.
Still got some Quasar forks in the attic.
My Mrs rode for Parkpre (1995). Nice bikes for the time.
Sachs bike parts (bought by Sram in 97).
Univega
Offroad / Proflex
Roach
X Lite?
Pro Flex
I'm here all week, YoKaiser. Do try the veal piccata...
Mountain Cycle just disappeared.
Middleburn are still with us.
Singular seems to have dropped from view of late.
I'm throwing Corratec in here. There was a few years where they really seemed to take off in the uk and then they disappeared. I'm sure they're still going but not in the uk.
Sunn
[i]Bontrager [/i]
Keith seems happy enough to have the components keep his name.
Iron Horse
Rock Lobster
what was that massive brand you used to see at all the races in the 90s.. did a full range from kids' to top full sussers.. ooh it's on the tip of my tongue!
Omg Mountain Cycle!
Sunn
Merlin titanium
Rocky Mountain
Fat chance
Xlite
Avocet
There was a time when this was super desirable lol
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Oooh! Fournales! Caramba Double Barrels!
DeKerf
Sunn
Merlin titanium
Rocky Mountain
Fat chance
Really? All going pretty strong. Not 100% sure about Merlin, I'll admit. Sunn have a strong 2018 range out, Rocky Mountain make some of the nicest looking bikes on the market today, and Fat Chance?
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Hubbah hubbah.
Fat Chance are back building lovely bikes.
MS Racing became Alpinestars.
Think Trek still sell Klein branded bikes somewhere around the world? Maybe the far east? Hate Trek for hoovering up brands just to nick the tech then cast them aside.
Rocky Mountain, Pace, Slingshot, Schwin, Diamond Back, GT are all still going FWIR.
PACE are still going...just.
Outland
Haven't heard much of Ventana lately either
Chumba...I had a lovely hardtail from them guys. still big in the US of A
https://www.chumbausa.com/
Townsend. Just beyond BSO to be acceptable, and crucially, attenable as a kid. Luckily my parents chipped into my bike savings and I got a GT talera. 🙂
X - Lite.
Fred Salmon (makes me think "[i]pink[/i]").
X - Lite
Weren't they another brand Brant tried to resurrect?
Weren't they another brand Brant tried to resurrect?
Thats the trouble, lots of "original" brands closed, but the name brought & relaunched with no connection to the oringinal company bar the name. Ie: Ibis, Onza etc
https://factoryjackson.com/2015/05/22/the-muc-off-story-pt-1-the-x-lite-years/
D.N.A. Titanium frames.
Morati titanium components (i have a Ti 26" fork).
Qwerty - the Ibis relaunch was led by the original chap.
Qwerty - the Ibis relaunch was led by the original chap.
I stand corrected but you get my drift.
Whoever said Rocky Mountain clearly not a user of the Singletrackworld.com website (is that still going?)
http://singletrackmag.com/?s=rocky+mountain
Iron horse are still going just in BSO form in America.
Emmelle although I dont think they were ever any good anyway.
Venhill.
My brother had a Klein, I had a Peugeot (Total team edition, sweet)
Kooka.
My kid had a lovely Haro a few years back. They seem to have abandoned MTBs.
What the hell was that 90s brand? Bugging me!
Cove ain't what they used to be.
Funk.
Another one just come to mind... begins with S I think. Mate had a white hardtail from CRC, but their full sussers were more common. My old brain is dyin.
Diamond Back
Iron Horse
Ellsworth
Dia Compe
Tioga
Local Motion
Breezer
Funk
All the ones I could think of have been mentioned.
I seem to recall Iron Horse died in 2008/9 victim of the credit crunch, as far as I remember they sold the Sunday that was THE DH to have at the time thanks to Sam Hill but I couldn’t name another one of their bikes, I doubt you can make a successful bike co from DH sales alone.
Cove are all but dead sadly, down to 4 frames, a Hummer which is there’s, the Hustler which is an off-the-shelf Chinese frame with a few Cove bits (or was that the old one) the Shocker the which isn’t massively different to the one I bought 10 years ago and wasn’t new then and the G-Spot which is 8 years old - can’t imagine they’re still making 26” wheeled Enduro and DH bikes, they’ve just been sat on the shelf for a very, very long time.
I wasn’t aware Klein were dead, I only ever saw their crazy airbrushed frames ridden by old beardy guys, assumed they still made them on the quiet and you’d only see them leaning against a beer garden bench surrounded by pints of real ale.
Handsomedog, DDG, 24SEVEN.
I know HSD was allterraincycles own brand and they stoped making them but they got good reviews back in the day.
No idea about DDG but the shooter was a great bike for dirt jumping at the time.
Ellsworth are still going, they’re just not completely gopping anymore so they’re not so easy to spot.
Cook Bros.
Egg.
KHS
Alpine Stars
Identiti
Checker Pig
Prob all still around in some form but never really hear of them
Maverick
Independent Fabrications been mentioned?
Anyone remember I think they were called 'Red Titanium" - Titanium frames from \ made with Russian Ti?
Also I think Ozone and Bigfoot?
Sintesi!
Identiti have just brought out a new one called the mettle.
Rock Lobster still make really nice bikes
Spooky still make reasonably nice bikes
Still see loads about on the internet!
Some more brands that're extinct/don't hear much of
Azonic
24seven
Schwinn
Cortina
Mr Crud
Avent
Balfa
24
.243racing
Morewood
Quite a surprisingly large amount of these bikes companies are still around in pretty much the same way as before, so it's interesting that we think that they aren't! Maybe it's because the way we get our bike related info is different- I for one rarely read a mag anymore and a lot of the local bike shops are either closed or had to change their range, so maybe that is why..
How did Sintesi ever die with beauties like this
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and this!
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Has that DH been crashed? It’s got a 90 degre head angle.
monkeysfeet - Member
Chumba...I had a lovely hardtail from them guys. still big in the US of A
https://www.chumbausa.com/
It's not the Chumba of old. Those two guys just bought the name.
Alan Kang destroyed Chumba. His rich Daddy bought him the company to play with... it didn't end well. Think he must have been taught by Tony Ellsworth....
Rst
Zero
Control tech??
Royce
Grove innovations
Trimble
Kirk
Parkpre?
Bullet bros
Cook bros
Azonic
Oh, and pulstar, machine tech and advanced systems I think it was, they made titanium spokes iirc.
Quite a surprisingly large amount of these bikes companies are still around in pretty much the same way as before, so it's interesting that we think that they aren't! Maybe it's because the way we get our bike related info is different- I for one rarely read a mag anymore and a lot of the local bike shops are either closed or had to change their range, so maybe that is why..
Maybe, I’ve been checking a few of them out - I assumed Foes was gone, but nope they’ve gone a pretty comprehensive range of frames available - but they seem to be direct sale without much marketing to push the brand.
Barracuda
(still not remembered that other one. Bugging me rotten!)
Carlton. I used to pass their factory on the way to school.
Royce are still very much going just most of us don’t look for taper B.B. anymore.
They have some loverly gold ti hubs on there website
And rst still make Loads of forks
Rotwild still going strong so strike them off the list
https://www.rotwild.com
Got it - Jamis.
Think they're still going but just not over here?
Amoeba
Roox
Sunline
Barracuda became cuda, still Moore large in derby
Bigfoot?
New frame has been designed but i guarantee 99% of the users here will hate it
Foes are still going, as are Ventana. Jamis are still sold in the UK through Evans I think.