Bontrager OR, 1996

[GoldenEraMTB]

Re: 1996?

This is a fantastic bike, well done. Are you sure it's a 1996? It seems a bit late to have U-brake/roller-cam mounts, I would guess it is a few years earlier?

Forks (pretty sure Mc Mahon) are older than the frame, frame has normal canti/V-brake mounts

exactly.

 

[Panum]

Re: 1996?

This is a fantastic bike, well done. Are you sure it's a 1996? It seems a bit late to have U-brake/roller-cam mounts, I would guess it is a few years earlier?

I'm not really into Bontrager frame, but the only way I've been able to track the frame's age. Is simply by checking the serial number (the one it got, when it got imported into Denmark). And it's registered in 1996 -- so ye, could be older though!

Yeah, I guess the frame is on the edge of being too small for me. I just have a hard time letting go of it - I really like it. It may not fit the modern standards for frame designs -- but I think it's a beautiful and simple frame... which focuses on "just being a bike"

I think it rides nicely, I honestly haven't been riding many well-build bikes -- so I can't really tell, on a sort of scale, how nice it rides. I used to have a 2000 Kona Fire Mountain 16", and it surely rides a lot nicer than that (Nothing wrong with Kona however, I guess the extra 2" helped a bit on the comfort for me).

Honestly, I'm not a sort of a Bontrager-fanatic... but I simply wanted to share this (bike) frame with you, as I heard they're pretty rare nowadays.