Awesome names...the era of great MTB manufacturers

[Russell]

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...

 

[novekili]

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.

 

[Thunderchild]

Mantis
Bridgestone
Kooka (original)
Blackburn


Thunderchild

 

[Augustus]

anything with research or racing in it really isn't it.

 

[Repack Rider]

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.

MountainBikes

We also coined "Unicrown" for the name of a fork whose blades curved into the steering tube and eliminated a fork crown.

 

[Lid]

He is allways such a tough act to follow.

 

[Repack Rider]

He is allways such a tough act to follow.

Sometimes I can't help myself.

As they say in my country, when you see a fat pitch, hammer it.

 

[Lid]

Your going to hit an obese woman with a mallet?

 

[kingroon]

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..]

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

But I digress..

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

 

[P20]

Times have changed. Shouldn't that say "Violence against Shiela's"