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A Trip Down Memory Lane!

peecee

peecee

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Apr 27, 2012
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I just spent 4 weeks in Europe, and when I was at home in the UK I set myself a task of taking pictures (Only iPhone) of interesting things in every old school magazine I still have sitting in my old bedroom.

Even thou the history of DH isn't that old I have always tried to find certain images of bikes but to no avail, I looked through every Dirt magazine from Issue 2 to there last one, Grip, Rush, a few MBUK's and a Local magazine that was getting around at the time called Shred.

If you want to check out of Retro goodness I've uploaded about 400 images to a folder on my Pinkbike profile.

http://www.pinkbike.com/u/heavyp/album/Retro-Goodness/
 
TrumbullHucker

TrumbullHucker

trumbullruxer
Aug 29, 2005
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wow.... this is quite the spread of aaaawesome pictures... totally forgot about the whole pull-shock era, and seeing that profile DR1 DH bike made me miss mine....kinda....a little

and was the turner javelin the first phase of the DHR? wow
 
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trib

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Jun 22, 2009
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so much nostalgia, I could vividly remember some of those articles and bikes. Now that manufacturers can make bikes that mostly work I miss the old days of 'groundbreaking technology' that completely sucked
 
FlipSide

FlipSide

Turbo Monkey
Sep 24, 2001
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trib said:
Now that manufacturers can make bikes that mostly work I miss the old days of 'groundbreaking technology' that completely sucked
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That...and the new parts and/or bike designs that never worked together. I have (not so) great memories of the pre-ISCG time when a file and a hammer were mandatory to fit a chainguide on a bike, as well as a handful of BB and chainring bolts shimz. Access to a bench grinder was also extremely valuable in those days.

The nice part is that for parking lot adjustment to the chainguide after it's been hit on the trail, large rocks were also perfectly acceptable tools. :)
 
Lelandjt

Lelandjt

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Apr 4, 2008
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I remember Mountain Bike magazine doing an article on a prototype bike made by Manitou called something like Project Euro DH. Back when DH bikes were still based on XC bikes it had radically slack angles and big tires and suspension. Ring any bells?
 
dump

dump

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Oct 12, 2001
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Lelandjt said:
I remember Mountain Bike magazine doing an article on a prototype bike made by Manitou called something like Project Euro DH. Back when DH bikes were still based on XC bikes it had radically slack angles and big tires and suspension. Ring any bells?
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Don't recall that bike specifically. This is the most DH thing I saw from the Manitou of those days:

 
dump

dump

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Oct 12, 2001
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Lelandjt said:
Yeah, I saw that doing an image search but I don't think that's it. I remember MX front tires on both ends and a KX80 fork. And disc brakes of course.
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That sounds pretty wild - never saw that!
 
peecee

peecee

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Apr 27, 2012
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Australia
Thanks for the replies its great to see other people who actually remember this stuff and what it meant for the sport at the time, these days its all a bit boring to be honest haha.

This is my favourite bike of all time, from what I remember there was hardly any information about it around the time if anyways has any pics or mags with extra info be amazing to see it.

I do know there was only 2 ever made 1 broke and the other 1 is owned by Nico.

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Gallain

Gallain

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Dec 28, 2001
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peecee said:
Thanks for the replies its great to see other people who actually remember this stuff and what it meant for the sport at the time, these days its all a bit boring to be honest haha.

This is my favourite bike of all time, from what I remember there was hardly any information about it around the time if anyways has any pics or mags with extra info be amazing to see it.

I do know there was only 2 ever made 1 broke and the other 1 is owned by Nico.

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Loved it in gold!

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/tech/2002/features/probikes/?id=NV02
 
Flo33

Flo33

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Mar 3, 2015
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