Pictures of old and obscure suspension bikes
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That guy is just up the road from me and he's the Aussie Transition importer as well so I've been there to pick up frames and stuff. I'm pretty sure their website stock thing is automatic, I wouldn't be surprised if those bikes are there.
Thanks for sharing !
Nope, I didn't know he had a channel. I will have a look
i knew a guy that raced the brodie 69'er for a time back in the day. was a tank, but was soooo cool (at the time). paul is a talented OG fabricator; really nice guy, too.
Needs a thudbuster.Dear god where is the "kill it with fire" when you need it!
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That reminds me. What happened to the guy that came here like 4-5 years ago claiming he has the new bestest design ever?
Brian Bertold, AKA @Tantrum Cycles ? We have been trying to summon him here since the pandemic started. He also hasn't been active on any other social platform AFAIK.
I mean John Oliver had a quote from a bike shop owner saying "Men are so desperate to find ANY bike they are willing to buy purple bikes" so maybe he's busy finally getting those desperation driven orders?
He’s still out there, he just hates Rm apparently. He posted something about solar farms on LinkedIn 9h ago.
Me too because the geo looks bizarre. Looks like it would build up like an old Evil HT with massive travel fork...
I thought it had the geometry of a BMX cruiser?
Actually, it appears he has been semi-active on mtbr...only that he's suspended his activities on the monkey...
2022 URT?
According to this piece:
The Critical Geometry Frame – Bicycle Design
bicycledesign.net
This is the closest thing I could find:
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It's like the same design philosophy as the guys that came up with
and
No fucking way it would ever "fly"...but someone still pursued their "dream"...
There's a modern version of that, Digit bikes mebbe?it even has a better looking half brother!
Aaah the good old days of people going "I guess no one tried this because i'm a genius and it came to me first"
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LOL, first comment on the blog:According to this piece:
The Critical Geometry Frame – Bicycle Design
This is the closest thing I could find:
”Does the M stand for Moronic? It looks to take the almost nonexistant benefits of the suspension seatpost and add weight and complexity. The dumbest part of the whole design is that the travel comes at the cost of bottom bracket clearance. As the bike uses it’s travel, the bottom bracket shell moves toward the ground. I can just imagine trying to clear a log or something and then having the lower bottom bracket height cause me to hang up on the log and doing a faceplant. There has to be a better way to keep constant saddle height.”
To be fair to them there’s 6,000 variations of bike designs using a single pivot driven suspension and a telescoping fork, so two variations on a linkage driven front end isn’t egregious.
Anybody know what this thing is? Norco maybe?
I like the kickstand.
it says "fulcrum" on the seat tower, so it's either one of those abominations later marketed by Hummer/Humvee or some other cheap contraption.
And while we are at it...
The Type 57x frame for bicycles - Fabbro Industries, LLC — Fabbro Industries, LLC
Who wants high pivot bikes when you could have extending chainstays with a pivotless setup?
The Type 57x frame for bicycles - Fabbro Industries, LLC — Fabbro Industries, LLC
Who wants high pivot bikes when you could have extending chainstays with a pivotless setup?