Retro Full Suspension

[stevet1]

Back tyre is on correctly to get maximum braking traction that you would need after reaching warp factor ten on that awesome machine. I actually love it, its supercool.

 

[FirstFlight]

That is in my top handful of bikes to add to the collection. I have a couple of articles about the bike that I have in the stack to be scanned.

 

[shovelon]

Brian Skinner and Todd Schall were collaborating on that design back in the 80s, patterned after a Kawasaki motorcycle design. I worked with Todd on his all aluminum version that he still has in the back of the garage. Todd had Works Performance build a custom shock for it. Both bikes did the Kamakazi runs in Mammoth in the early days. We talked just last week about retrofitting a modern air shock to it.

The rear brake is a Schwinn disc.

 

[The Ken]

I quite like it, very industrial and visibly advanced for the time it was made.

Not a million miles away from current kona suspension design (stab delux), ok so the shock is a little large, but think of the travel you'd get.

 

[lewis1641]

that is ace!

 

[letmetalktomark]

I should probabley clarify it was just the picture I came across rather than a bike for sale.

It was on an old thread about retro full sus bikes.

Sorry if I got peoples hopes up that I had found a secret stash

 

[shovelon]

Brian Skinner and Todd Schall were collaborating on that design back in the 80s, patterned after a Kawasaki motorcycle design. I worked with Todd on his all aluminum version that he still has in the back of the garage. Todd had Works Performance build a custom shock for it. Both bikes did the Kamakazi runs in Mammoth in the early days. We talked just last week about retrofitting a modern air shock to it.

The rear brake is a Schwinn disc.

Just to update, Brian and Todd were rivals at the time, not collaboraters. The disc brakes were in fact department store Shimano brand.

Todds all alum bike got destroyed somewhere down the line, but his 1986ish steel bike is still complete and is coming out of retirement pretty soon. Not untill some 12 years later did K2/Proflex use the same shock configuration on the long travel Beast.

Note the alum swingarm.