yeah but back in the day, what the hell did we know? i still wish i had my old Scwinn S20 and Homegrown URT's
Pictures of old and obscure suspension bikes
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great! Thanks for the heads up.
For those who haven't seen, here's some info on the frames:
http://www.spookybikes.com/frames.php
I don't know if this has been posted before of not
GT LTS
GT LTS
I still want one of those..This thread got me motivated to resurrect an old steed.
This is actually for sale... may end up in the museum at FirstFlgiht.
$300 and this frame has the disc tabs unlike the earlier version.
$300 and this frame has the disc tabs unlike the earlier version.
it might not be old an obscure but does anyone have any pics of the old Kona Stab Dee lux the year they first cam with the monster t?
it was the blue and black one with the bent tube and the monster t? That was my first real love with dh bikes and i cant seem to find pics anywhere...help!
it was the blue and black one with the bent tube and the monster t? That was my first real love with dh bikes and i cant seem to find pics anywhere...help!
Speaking old Schwinn's. Here is my first generation Straight 6 in "Bass Boat Blue". I got it in 97 and I am still riding it.
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=93062&d=1194008701
must have cost a mint at that point! that is a rad bike loved that 'homegrown' version...didnt know they even sold that.
MSRP in 1997 was $5400 and that was with a RS Judy DHO
. Like many riders I worked at a shop then and got the EP price. The thing weighs right at 40lbs(the magic number) and rides great. As a matter of fact, I just got a gently used 05 Boxxer WC for it. I will have it on a week or so.
what will you do if you need a shock?
Do you ride at diablo at all? I saw someone on that bike around the second week of oct...i definately noticed the classic...
Do you ride at diablo at all? I saw someone on that bike around the second week of oct...i definately noticed the classic...
I have a spare. Quite frankly the frame is getting old. I am more worried about it than the shock.
Never been to Diablo. I want to go next year. I race in the Southeast. Beech Mtn back in the day and no further north than Snowshoe. I am kind of surprised I have only ever seen one other blue S-6 in all of my years riding.
there was a guy in boston who bought a bassboat blue s6...had an RST fork on it, I believe, the sigma XL. got it for $600...I was watching the auction. Nicely stock, and I believe he commuted to class on it, at least once.
So, they do exist...
So, they do exist...
yeah any more? !
that build is nuts with the shiver and chainring...definately liked it stock
hell, that looks like the new rocky mountain frame design.
great bike, i had one of those for a while too. and i still have a Homegrown hardtail in Bass Boat blue too.
wanna sell the hardtail homegrown?
ok not that old and obscure, but here's a pic of my old spooky/ftw Motorhead:
and here as a complete bike.
and here as a complete bike.
Love this Kelly - went up on eBay last year maybe. In the vein of the awesome Sunns:
My own classic Rocky Cirrus, which has been recently renewed with a perfectly appropriate Lawwill Leader. This is what happens to an old AMP in a panic stop - saved my butt, actually - just rode it into the ground as I crashed and it self-destructed - and it absorbed it's last big shock very well.
And for the roadies - an AMP (I think) that I never saw but kicks the Rock Shox Ruby's ass...
And finally my own bizarre find, a torsion bar road setup from Japanese company SUS21 who normally play with aircraft landing gear. Awesome quality.
I have a request though for any old school gurus in the crowd. Back in '96 maybe, Mountain Bike Action had an article on cruisers with a nice KHS, and Indy Fab and some others, but also a tiny photo of some dude's custom cruiser with awesome milled forks. I remember MBA said they were Japanese, with a name like Nakamichi or Nakagami. Something with an "N" - - any clues, anybody??
My own classic Rocky Cirrus, which has been recently renewed with a perfectly appropriate Lawwill Leader. This is what happens to an old AMP in a panic stop - saved my butt, actually - just rode it into the ground as I crashed and it self-destructed - and it absorbed it's last big shock very well.
And for the roadies - an AMP (I think) that I never saw but kicks the Rock Shox Ruby's ass...
And finally my own bizarre find, a torsion bar road setup from Japanese company SUS21 who normally play with aircraft landing gear. Awesome quality.
I have a request though for any old school gurus in the crowd. Back in '96 maybe, Mountain Bike Action had an article on cruisers with a nice KHS, and Indy Fab and some others, but also a tiny photo of some dude's custom cruiser with awesome milled forks. I remember MBA said they were Japanese, with a name like Nakamichi or Nakagami. Something with an "N" - - any clues, anybody??
Didn't Kelly go out of business? I thought that was why they were being sold
That's a Zenith Sake DH, a local bike manufacturer from here (Argentina). For the color I'll say it's a '98 one, had either a Fastrax or a RST rear shock. Both were a mess when the extender shaft bent. You could still see some on sale:Another
This one looks kinda like a Nicoli Lamba(sp?)
This one came out on December the 13th, and the following one on Dec 14th:
Regards,
Luis
PS: Anyone remembers the Specialized from around '96 with a dish (kevlar reinforced) Tioga rear wheel?
(not suspension, but whatever) the old rockies rule. i'd love to have a fillet-brazed thunderbolt to hang on the wall. so classic. the summit was pretty neat as well:
i'm old enough to have actually ridden hardware like this (including the trick syncros fork - yeah, we got excited about rigid triple clamp forks back then). we've come a long ways, evidently.
That hardtail would actually ride really nice,and absorb trail irregularities well.
we have come a long ways, but we still prop our bikes up with sticks for pictures!(not suspension, but whatever) the old rockies rule. i'd love to have a fillet-brazed thunderbolt to hang on the wall. so classic. the summit was pretty neat as well:
i'm old enough to have actually ridden hardware like this (including the trick syncros fork - yeah, we got excited about rigid triple clamp forks back then). we've come a long ways, evidently.
i was really expecting we'd have hoverbikes by at least 2001 (and robots would do all our work as we lived lives of leisure, and we'd eat meals in pill form whilst wearing shiny silver jumpsuits). i've been sadly disappointed by the promises of a utopian future by means of science & technology.
Hey, I actually have one of these also!And finally my own bizarre find, a torsion bar road setup from Japanese company SUS21 who normally play with aircraft landing gear. Awesome quality.
Dave, you'd like the frames here.... http://www.fietsnet.nl/Bedrijf/summit/index.htm
Looks like Rocky Mountain's 2009 lineup.
FTW!
we have come a long ways, but we still prop our bikes up with sticks for pictures!
Ah the old Summit bikes! Those guys used to be Trophy Lawwill, then I guess they didn't pay Mert and flipped the linkage upsidedown to get around the patent. I used to race for Trophy back in '95 or so. They were good riding bikes, but had too much leverage and kept cracking the swing arms. I think I posted the original Trophy bike at the beginning of this thread.
actually that frame looks like a first vpp frame no ?This is actually for sale... may end up in the museum at FirstFlgiht.
$300 and this frame has the disc tabs unlike the earlier version.
Sanat Cruz and Intense should have bought the patents to that.
Outland Pre-dates the Curtlo/Azonic VR1 frame by a year or so....
These aren't that obscure, but you get 2 for the price of one: My Giant ATX and somebody's '99 GT Lobo, circa 2000 at pre-Diablo Mt. Creek.
