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Bike companies that are (somehow) still around

Which bike company still in business is the most surprising?

  • Ellsworth

    Votes: 46 52.9%

  • Jamis

    Votes: 2 2.3%

  • KHS

    Votes: 5 5.7%

  • Marin

    Votes: 3 3.4%

  • Ventana

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • Foes

    Votes: 8 9.2%

  • Cove

    Votes: 3 3.4%

  • Orange

    Votes: 3 3.4%

  • Cannondale

    Votes: 3 3.4%

  • Corsair

    Votes: 13 14.9%
  • Total voters
    87
CheetaMike

CheetaMike

Monkey
Jul 17, 2016
229
57
Whonnock BC Canada
I had a RST on my 1992 Giant , a huge 50mm of travel , Later on when i bought my 1st Cheeta , I got it with the recently released RST MOZO 4.5 , What a fork that was LOL , compared to the Judy and the Mag,s it had close to twice the travel , but once it got cold , or wet it crapped out in performance . The Judy spring swap for the foam,springs helped but it had no rebound really .
 
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trib

not worthy of a Rux.
Jun 22, 2009
1,636
639
I had an RST Mozo Pro with a whopping 3.5" of travel. Works really well in could, wet Wales with the elastomers basically solid. I forgot what the knobs were supposed to adjust but they did nothing.

Also the arch bolts worked loose - that's probably my fault though
 
dump

dump

Turbo Monkey
Oct 12, 2001
8,451
5,067
kidwoo said:
<<< Also hit in the face with one of those topcaps.


"Plastic threads bracing a heavily loaded spring? SURE! Let's do it!!"
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man, susension forks in those days were such amateur hour crap.
 
slimshady

slimshady

¡Mira, una ardilla!
Dec 20, 2007
5,717
3,565
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
I had a RST AEROSA (WTF???) 381 fork back in 2000-2001. It used a plastic cartridge with air for both preload and damping. And you had to take it off the fork to modify the rebound damping -or that's what they said, I did it twice and never felt a difference between the four detents it had. When trying to undo the plastic top cap for the third time, I rounded the damn think up. One week later the lower's bridge snapper while jumping from the sidewalk to the street.

Then I went and ordered my first real fork from Jenson, a RS Psylo XC.
 
DH biker

DH biker

Turbo Monkey
Dec 12, 2004
1,185
0
North East
How about Brooklyn Machine Works?? There site is showing some pretty nice hipster hardtails these days. They all say sold out, but their last site update was just a year ago...

What about Sinister Bikes? They still around?

Miss the good ol' days of East Coast Downhill "brands"
 
CheetaMike

CheetaMike

Monkey
Jul 17, 2016
229
57
Whonnock BC Canada
DH biker said:
How about Brooklyn Machine Works?? There site is showing some pretty nice hipster hardtails these days. They all say sold out, but their last site update was just a year ago...

What about Sinister Bikes? They still around?

Miss the good ol' days of East Coast Downhill "brands"
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When I was repping for Cheeta and doing my Demon archs for the Marz Z1 and Monster T , the original 3 owners from Sinister bought some of my arch,s from me . They also came out to BC and I spent several days touring them around the North Shore and several other local riding spots . Frank the welder was building their frames back then , I think in the end he bought the company from them .
 
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Pegboy

Turbo Monkey
Jan 20, 2003
1,139
27
New Hamp-sha
Reading through and reminiscing about some of the brands.

I blame Shaums March! That dude has ridden more ghosts listed here than anyone I can think of!

Mountain Cycles, Ellsworth, Chumba Wumba, Schwinn, (and I believe Norco and Marin as well)
 
slimshady

slimshady

¡Mira, una ardilla!
Dec 20, 2007
5,717
3,565
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
iRider said:
Shit! Their Lawwill Nine is 750b compatible!!!!
http://www.wearerotec.com/lawwill-n-i-n-e-features

The lizards push another wheel size upon us.
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Now you've said too much...

EDIT: And it has a geometry so aggressive they couldn't post it for fear it would be mistaken as hate speech!!!


Features
750b ready frame
Hydroformed 6061 Aluminium tubeset
Agressive Park/Slopestyle geometry
Tapered headtube
ISCG
Head angle:
Seatpost:
Seatpost angle:
Rear axle:
Chainstay length:
BB shell:
BB height:
Sizes: S () M () L () XL ()
 
Sandwich

Sandwich

Pig my fish!
Staff member
May 23, 2002
21,779
7,044
borcester rhymes
they had some photos up on bookface. not a bad looking bike, but a BB concentric. Might be fun for park mashing, I guess. Cheap too, $1500!
 
Kanye West

Kanye West

220# bag of hacktastic
Aug 31, 2006
3,767
501
Cheap, strong, monster bikes with good geo like that Rotec is what 95% of the riders on the mountain need. Not a featherweight fragile race rig.

Their trail bike rig looks like it falls into the same category. Simple, cheap, effective enough. No hype or extra BS.

That's one company I hope keeps doing what it's doing. Needs to be someone else besides GG doing the US hand-built thing with some standard of quality and durability. Foes does not count.
 
Udi

Udi

RM Chief Ornithologist
Mar 14, 2005
4,918
1,213
Kanye West said:
Needs to be someone else besides GG doing the US hand-built thing with some standard of quality and durability. Foes does not count.
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How about Intense?
First name that comes to mind when I think "quality", "durability" and "some standard".
 
Sandwich

Sandwich

Pig my fish!
Staff member
May 23, 2002
21,779
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Kanye West said:
Cheap, strong, monster bikes with good geo like that Rotec is what 95% of the riders on the mountain need. Not a featherweight fragile race rig.

Their trail bike rig looks like it falls into the same category. Simple, cheap, effective enough. No hype or extra BS.

That's one company I hope keeps doing what it's doing. Needs to be someone else besides GG doing the US hand-built thing with some standard of quality and durability. Foes does not count.
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don't know if anybody else can see this photo. do you really think that's hand made in the USA? for 1500? dollar to doorknobs that suckers made in taiwan or even china. Not that it's the worst thing- you can't get a us made frame for what it costs to get one from taiwan.

but you do have to appreciate the subtle comedy of them saying that shock technology has come far enough that they don't have to worry about putting the pivot in the wrong spot.
 
ZoRo

ZoRo

Turbo Monkey
Sep 28, 2004
1,224
11
MTL
I once had a Quadra 21 with an intelligent lock-out feature. It actually anticipated when it needed to be locked-out, usually when it was really *ucking cold outside. Then the elastomer would stop working and BAM, once you hit a good compression or hit, it would fully compress and then comeback up like a pogo stick. Those were the dayz!

Exactly like this piece of shit

 
iRider

iRider

Turbo Monkey
Apr 5, 2008
5,686
3,143
mtg said:
Nope, just us is good with me :)
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Then you better get going with a straight tube'd or monocoque, 5" travel, 26" wheel'd bike that is a mix of XC and dual bike (remember those old Blur 4x?) so I can finally stop buying NOS or used unridabru VPP bikes from this other (former) Made in the USA brand.
 
mtg

mtg

Green with Envy
Sep 21, 2009
1,862
1,604
Denver, CO
iRider said:
Then you better get going with a straight tube'd or monocoque, 5" travel, 26" wheel'd bike that is a mix of XC and dual bike (remember those old Blur 4x?) so I can finally stop buying NOS or used unridabru VPP bikes from this other (former) Made in the USA brand.
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Get a Trail Pistol, error on the side of sizing down, put it in Plush Mode, run normal 27.5 wheels, and that's pretty close to what you're describing.
 
kidwoo

kidwoo

Artisanal Tweet Curator
Aug 25, 2003
42,149
13,358
Squirtin ketchup n' mustard on charred flesh
mtg said:
Get a Trail Pistol, error on the side of sizing down, put it in Plush Mode, run normal 27.5 wheels, and that's pretty close to what you're describing.
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This might be the only time you EVER hear me say this: That might be too low.


Dropping from 27.5 to the correct wheelsize only drops half an inch. Dropping from Road wheels to 27.5 is 0.75.













Oh god. I just made a potential argument for plus sized tires


No I didn't


I hate myself right now.
 
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