Your first Mountain bike
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1984 Bianchi Grizzly (not my photo), bought new with my bike shop employee discount.
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I don’t quite remember. A Bridgestone MB-3 maybe. We were selling Mountain Bikes the brand about 1981, Cannondale came in with goofy BMX caliper brakes on their first bikes. I got an aluminum Breezer frame n ‘91.
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I don't know the exact year that mountain bikes became popular, but the first mountain bike I ever saw (and owned) was a Western Flyer Grizzly. It was the epitome of generic, but back then I didn't know what generic was. Evidently Western Flyer bought up other bikes and put their name on them- at least that's what one expert told me. I can't even find a picture of it online to confirm its existence, but you can believe me that it existed. After ramping so many times, the handle bars caved in (That was probably the last time I ramped anything). It was then that I bought a Trek. But The black and green Western Flyer had served its purpose. It got me into biking and survived the Katy Trail in Missouri.
What was your first mountain bike?
What was your first mountain bike?
Don't laugh:
I bought this at Sears in 2000 and within 2 years had replaced the wheels, BB, derailleurs and brakes/shifters with Deore LX. The only reason it has survived under my bulk all these years is because the frame is so heavy and tough. It's some kind of alloy. The fork is some kind of cheap, non-adjustable knock-off that has somehow held together all these years. I have kept it tuned up and ridden trails with it just about every year since 2000.
It is wearing cruiser tires in this pic because I put 700 miles on it this summer training for a bike tour before I saved enough money for a road bike. I would like to put knobbies back on it this fall and have a little bit more fun on the trails before I (hopefully) get a decent MTB next spring.
I bought this at Sears in 2000 and within 2 years had replaced the wheels, BB, derailleurs and brakes/shifters with Deore LX. The only reason it has survived under my bulk all these years is because the frame is so heavy and tough. It's some kind of alloy. The fork is some kind of cheap, non-adjustable knock-off that has somehow held together all these years. I have kept it tuned up and ridden trails with it just about every year since 2000.
It is wearing cruiser tires in this pic because I put 700 miles on it this summer training for a bike tour before I saved enough money for a road bike. I would like to put knobbies back on it this fall and have a little bit more fun on the trails before I (hopefully) get a decent MTB next spring.
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First real mountain bike was a 1984 Fuji Mt. Fuji, bought in 1994 at a pawn shop for $125. It was stolen in 2007 damn it.
Prior to that, a C-Ito 10 speed, a few 50's 60's Schwinn, a Stingray knock-off ... this was in the late 60's early 70's, before mountain bikes were invented, so my friends and I rode what we had through the woods and such.
Prior to that, a C-Ito 10 speed, a few 50's 60's Schwinn, a Stingray knock-off ... this was in the late 60's early 70's, before mountain bikes were invented, so my friends and I rode what we had through the woods and such.
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My first ATB was a 1986 Diamond Back Topanga. I put slicks on it to commute with. Did some trail riding and then bought a cheap pink Reflex (bonded aluminum tubes to lugs) from a mail order place which got me into real riding. Did stuff in the Canyon Lands National Park and the Wasatch on it etc. Then I realized it was too big, and I got a Lotus mail-order bike with Sun Tour Express push-push shifters.
Kept selling the old ones on consignment at a local shop.
The shifters died, and then I got a steel Ross drop bar, dare I say gravely bike 700c bike which I rode for years until the fork broke off under me.
Then I got a yellow Giant Cadex with Suntour XC pro micro drive and I was hitting the big time single tracks on it. Put a 110 travel Manitou on it eventually and raced a bit. Then it got stolen.
Then I got an early carbon frame and the brake posts broke off in the rear, and that was warranted a funded a titanium hardtail in 1996 which I still ride a lot.
These were my first mountain bikes.
Kept selling the old ones on consignment at a local shop.
The shifters died, and then I got a steel Ross drop bar, dare I say gravely bike 700c bike which I rode for years until the fork broke off under me.
Then I got a yellow Giant Cadex with Suntour XC pro micro drive and I was hitting the big time single tracks on it. Put a 110 travel Manitou on it eventually and raced a bit. Then it got stolen.
Then I got an early carbon frame and the brake posts broke off in the rear, and that was warranted a funded a titanium hardtail in 1996 which I still ride a lot.
These were my first mountain bikes.
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1988 Specialized Rockhopper Comp. Under chainstay U brake, all steel.I believe it was all Deore components. Heavy as all get out and quite expensive for the day. I wish I still had it.
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Not mine but it was this. 1993 Trek 930SHX in Electric Plum. I had mine with Deore brake levers and thumbshifters from the start though. Tough bike, saved all my nickels and dimes for it. Got it at age 14 from a shop I would work only one winter for.
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Mountain bike, I am faced with the choice of which one to buy. I look at who is riding or riding on what and my eyes diverge. I want to go with friends to the mountains to ride so that there would be a lot of experience, but I can not choose amateur eh