1996 Olympics Mountain Bikes

[Danone]

The mountain bike event at the 2012 Olympics is soon, so i thought i'd cast my mind back to Atlanta 1996 when Olympic mountain bike racing made it's debut at Georgia International Horse Park.

Where can i find the spec information of the bikes used at this event?

 

[Tazio]

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=214610

 

[Rich Aitch]

B.M.W cashed in on their Olympic partner'ness [They'd previously launched the original- E12- 5 Series to co-incide with the 1972 Olympics, thinking that the Munich games would have positive associations for many people, whoops!] to make the "Official mountainbike of the 1996 Olympics". It was a tarted up version of the Montague/ Rudge Whitworth Bi-Frame folding bike, presumably aimed at blazer wearing referees to pedal about on/ and or gullible people to buy.
I've ridden the Rudge version and it is a reasonable bike for on road but it has no standover height and it has less ground clearance than a miniature Daschund. Not for competitive off road action!