sloping top tube. who n when?

[topshifter]

who can settle this dispute? who was the first frame builder to introduce a sloping top tube? was it kona (cinder8 or earlier. i remember overburrys having them on the pioneer, which is earlier still!

 

[hamster]

There was a thread on this the other week. They were around in the 1930s!

 

[RockiMtn]

according to these two links, Paul Brodie in 1985 built the "Avalanche", the first sloping top tube mountain bike for Rocky Mountain.

http://www.completesite.com/mbhof/page. ... 4&pageid=6

http://www.brodiebikes.com/2010/about_b ... istory.php

 

[topshifter]

cheers for that. lost the bet. no jalfrezi! boo hoo. you sure it wasnt overburrys!

 

[lewis1641]

Charlie cunningham pre dated the rocky mountains i believe

 

[RockiMtn]

i guess it depends on what you mean by WHO. is it the individual who did it for there own personnel use? or person who did it for a company to mass market to the public. As well as WHEN a Mountain Bike category was officially adopted as opposed to being just a bike with "Fat Tires".

from this link it has Cunningham building a bike for himself with sloping tube in 1979:

http://www.cunninghambikes.com/charlie-cunningham.html

 

[RockiMtn]

and rehashing a previous thread:

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=74855

 

[DM]

"In 1994, Kona invented the brilliant and now standard sloping top tube..."

It says so here: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5708207/

(makes me laugh every time )

 

[pete_mcc]

from this link it has Cunningham building a bike for himself with sloping tube in 1979:

http://www.cunninghambikes.com/charlie-cunningham.html

Don't believe everything you read on that website - it was written by a frightening Cunningham stalker who now has court orders and restraining orders in the best part of 45 states preventing him from going within 500yards of Mr C of indeed any aluminium bike for fear of him relapsing. Originally he had listed one of Cunninghams inventions as the 'spoked, round wheel' such is his belief that Cunningham is a deity. It's a condition known as 'Fisheritis' where the sufferer believes that he invented everything regardless of how mad it sounds (in this case it is Fisheritis by proxy)

Sloping TTs have been around since the invention of the bike:

 

[makster]

cheers for that. lost the bet. no jalfrezi! boo hoo. you sure it wasnt overburrys!

Overbury's marketed the Pioneer as the first sloping top tubed bike in the UK, but I'm not sure they were correct with that claim
Fookin nice bikes though