BoTM Bike of The Month August 2025 - Blue-collar Special - now taking entries

[Carge]

@raidan73
Can I ask - is Deore LX M550 circa 1990 permitted?
It isn't specifically excluded in your list.... but Deore is?

 

[Lhatch4]

Lhatch4's 1991 Bridgestone MB-5

This bike is a pristine surviver. I'm the second owner. I looks like the first owner road it a few times before putting it in a garage and forgetting about it. Exage groupset, steel frame, great bike.

Thread '1991 Bridgestone MB-5'

Saturday at 19:58

I didn't originally intend to make a build thread for this one. It's more of a refreshing of a garage find, time capsule. This was the listing where I found it.

• Lhatch4
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• Forum: Reader's MTBs --> 1997

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[raidan73]

@raidan73
Can I ask - is Deore LX M550 circa 1990 permitted?
It isn't specifically excluded in your list.... but Deore is?

I would say Deore LX was a replacement for the previous Mountain LX, so all good

 

[Spankyfart]

Cycle Tech aprox 1986/7
Mullet wheels and Suntour.
Not sure if this is what is eligible.

 

[27motorhead]

Cycle Tech aprox 1986/7
Mullet wheels and Suntour.
Not sure if this is what is eligible.


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LOVE THAT!
That’s an early aluminium frame. What happened to the original quill stem? Or did you buy it like that?

 

[Spankyfart]

Got it like that, the quill is a Nitto on an unidentified stem.

 

[27motorhead]

Got it like that, the quill is a Nitto on an unidentified stem.

Just how big is that frame? It looks HUGE!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Was going to say that the Norco Rampage was guaranteed to get my vote, then the Cycle Tech comes along

Two of my favorite "blue collar" Canadian brands, what am I supposed to do? If anyone enters a BRC, I'm doomed...

 

[rubon87]

@rubon87 1992 Cinelli Tuttifrutti️️

 

[fennec]

There is no build thread for this, if that’s a disqualifier then so be it.

This is a 1995 Novara Arriba, it’s an REI Co-Op store brand frame I covered in cheap stuff.

Here it is before I got hit by a car for the third time



Here it is after I got hit by a car for a third time


The only fancy part on this bike is the set of xpedo spry pedals
I can’t show you the fork because it’s covered in swear words and messages about domestic terrorism