Some Retrobikes passing through Bikeworkshop in Bristol

[bikeworkshop]

Fresh in from @winjohn in the Shires:
1991 says the receipt.
A reminder to all of us how early European mtb style was heavily influenced by skiing and windsurfing.
Did that purple fade ever look good?

A pre-hybrid

 

[winjohn]

The bike clear-out continues.
bikeworkshop has a really cool bikeworkshop...I can't remember what it's called.

 

[winjohn]

You can tell it is a classy establishment though, the chain pull in the lav is an XTR hub .

 

[kingoffootball]

A pre-hybrid

Weren't hybrids pretty well established by 1991?

 

[bikeworkshop]

IYou'd have thought so.
But like the purple/black fade it's looking for its market with one eye on the past.
It's described as a mountain bike in the catalogue, but I would say the market is more urban.

Bought new in 1991, but it's the 1990 model. Rrp£300 i believe

I think the Mean Street is the proper hybrid, the 700 wheeled model in the same year
https://dawescycles.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1990-dawes-cat-vcc.pdf