When was Shimano Deore LX introduced?

[Cristian-T]

1989's mountain lx became deore lx in 1990. it was far more similar to exage 500lx than it was to dx - it had the weaker cantis, the plastic shifters and the four finger brake levers.

pretty crankset though.

spot-on. my 89 ridgeback 602 had mountain LX, & for 90' they changed it to deore LX, with 1st gen. STI.

im pretty sure though, they only made mountain LX for 1989..does that make it collectable..!?

 

[terryhfs]

Deore LX was originally under Deore in the range - it's only later that it went up one.

Deore LX replaced Mountain LX which itself replaced the Exage Mountain group. In the olden days it went;

Exage Trail
Exage Mountain
Deore
Deore XT

The range widened when 7 speed was introduced. Deore and Deore XT got the suffix 'II'

 

[Bike Hoarder]

Hasn't Sheldon got lists of all this on his site?

http://sheldonbrown.com/shimano.html

But, i've been looking and i can't see an actual date.

 

[dyna-ti]

When did the black and gold lx come out?