Awesome names...the era of great MTB manufacturers

andrewl":amfuy8qg said:
e.g a friends commuter is a KHS badged Ritchey team frame (circa 90-91). He never has to lock it up as the factory team fluro hot pink and blue is so ugly that no one would ever want to steal it - or get close enough to see what it is (his words).

Oi!!! My road bike is a rather fetching blue/purple fade KHS... :)
 
Well, while all manifacturers produced "frames" or "chassis" Klein scientifically handcrafted "fuselages". Inventing that must have taken more time than building and painting a boron carbide-aluminium midnight storm Adroit.

BTW does anyone remember "yellow mushroom" bikes? Circa '94.
 
Hard to top the name that didn't mean anything, and in fact had never been used in print until Gary Fisher and I used it for our company.

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We also coined "Unicrown" for the name of a fork whose blades curved into the steering tube and eliminated a fork crown.
 
Good job you're not in Australia, there's a new Government policy about not hitting women with mallets [even though somehow the rest of the world knew this yeeeeears ago..]

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http://www.australiasaysno.gov.au/

But I digress..

I always like the Fat Chance, Slim Chance idea ol' Chris had going..
 
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