What was the best looking retro Full Suspension design?

[gibbleking]

including me thats 3 votes for the sannie.however the manitou has to be the shiniest and second in the pretty stakes followed by m gioves cannondale dh rig with matching t5 estate

 

[kaiser]

These were the pics

 

[retroking#1]

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My choice

 

[BarneyRubble]

These were the pics

That could just turn me from the RTS to the San Andreas, they are amazing, paricularly in this guise!

 

[velomaniac]

Based purely on looks I drooled over Klein Mantras, Trek Y-Frames (carbon ones) and Schwinn Homegrowns (I think thats the name).
I seem to like URT designs despite their obvious limitations :roll:
Also the non URT Cannondale Y-style framed models culminating in the carbon raven model (I think it was called a raven but my mind may just be failing me).

 

[gibbleking]

cant help but stick another in there just to complete the ensamble.....go sanie go sannie go sannie

 

[utahdog2003]

I'd vote for Slingshot. Not exactly full suspension, but sertainly designed to take the edge off, as early suspension systems were meant to. To me, nothing says vintage suspension idea like the Slingshot...except maybe the Girvin Flexstem, and I can't bring myself to give that hunk of crap any accolades.

Slingshot it is...honorable mention to the AMP strut frames without interrupted seat tubes, and the Crosstrac Sonoma. That goofy Firestone air bladder rear suspension on the Sonoma was rediculous. And the equalizer tubes from one leg of the fork to the other, both ideas just spelled "I'll try anything". I can't get behind the San Andreas as a retro design, mostly because last time I heard it's still around, and generally accepted as a smart design.

 

[Grant]

Yes!!!!!

 

[sinnett177]

alpinestars T-44 from 1992.

 

[993GT2]

Based purely on looks I drooled over Klein Mantras, Trek Y-Frames (carbon ones) and Schwinn Homegrowns (I think thats the name).