The Retro thread......blasts from the past

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  • mattbarnes
    mattbarnes Posts: 295
    Ah, the legendary Tioga Disk Drive. A magical device that blew you over in a cross wind and made your back wheel five times heavier than conventional spokes. Absolutely no advantage to them whatsoever other than it made a right bloody noise and lightened your pocket of hundreds of pounds. I still wanted one though!

    That said, it probably wouldn't have looked as good on my Raleigh M-Trax that I had than it did on Tomac's Raleigh. Mine did have titanium main tubes and Pace forks. The forks were 'Atmosphere Balanced' you know! :?: :lol:
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  • snotty badger
    snotty badger Posts: 1,593
    Ah happy days!

    Ritchey Z-Max were my choice of tyres. Everyone seemed to have Tioga Powerstud barends too.

    Think I've still got my Dirt VHS too!
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    AH, I remember the atmospheric balanced forks!

    Loved the MTrax Ti, or Dynatech frames, so smooth to ride.
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    can still get the z max tires, in one form or another....
  • breezer
    breezer Posts: 1,225
    I run an 8 speed Suntour XC Pro thumbshifter upside down on the left of the bars to do the front mech on my 08 Inbred. I cant be dealing with rubbing front mech noise! My 1992 Breezer Lightning still has its original 92 XC Pro front mech and left thumby

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  • cheehee
    cheehee Posts: 427
    What happened to Suntour? Are they still going, I don't remember seeing any of there stuff recently..........
  • breezer
    breezer Posts: 1,225
    Stopped as a drivetrain maker in the early 90's or something then I believe sold a few really low end options, reappeared a few years back making low end suspension forks under the SR Suntour label and I think they manufacture some of the low end marzcocchi ones which are branded under the big M

    Back in 92 the Lightning Pro which I had was lighter than the XTR equipped Lightning as Suntour went microdrive first when Shimano were still running 26/36/46 or whever the typical old style ring sizes were. Mine was 20/32/42 with 11-24 out back! Tiny granny ring. Quality wasnt as good though. I ripped 3 teeth off my 4th cog one day then another ride I snapped a couple of chainring bolts on the granny ring and had to remove the others and tie it loosely around the bottom bracket to get home heh. The mechs and shifters however were brilliant, still using original shifters across the 2 bikes now and original front mech, 16yrs old..
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    the old bike to the right came with a load of old suntour stuff, i still use the front derailer, the rest sits in the shed until, well who knows what.
  • Dan_xz
    Dan_xz Posts: 130
    cheehee wrote:
    My mate's Emmelle Corniche
    Cheehee

    Oh yeah! I used to covet my mates Corniche too - orange and green goodness! Had the first indexed gears I ever used - Suntour Accushift!

    And then a couple of years later someone else got an Orange Clockwork and I was still on my mild steel friction geared Apollo which was still too big for me to straddle after two years growth! Not a problem though - remember those padded top tube covers?
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Good old Suntour! Worth having a look through their webpage:

    http://www.srsuntour-cycling.com/SID=si ... /index.php

    Still make loads of stuff, icn some basic drivetrain equipment. Some of the budget forks are better than RSs efforts, and as Breezer says, are a vendor for other companies.

    I used to have an Emmelle Cheetah!
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    I think my brother's Revolution has a Suntour crankset.
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  • littleandy0410
    littleandy0410 Posts: 631
    I remember having a chainstay protector with a shark fin on it, (anodised, of course!) and a mk1 crud catcher and crudguard - with metal supports connecting to the seat stay eyes.

    Also, fitting "novelty" anodised cantilever brake hangers. I had a CND symbol and (I think) a frog or newt or salamander.
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Anyone remember Fred Salmon?!
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  • cheehee
    cheehee Posts: 427
    Do you remember those 'corner bags' that went between the angles of the seat and top tube??

    They were padded to help you carry the bike.

    I remember a lad at my school had a GT Timberline, I was so jealous...... :lol:
  • Wheelieguy
    Wheelieguy Posts: 139
    Reading thriugh this thread its like stepping back in time to when i was a teen in the middle of the mtb`ing explosion of the early nineties, i remeber the first bike i was ever jealous of was my mates raleigh m-trax the ti one and then another of my mates bought a brand new marin bear valley se complete with full stx-rc groupset and marinlite cantis on it, they seemed sooo fiddly to set up but they were so powerful it was unreal...

    I always swapped all the bolts on my bike for anodised blue ones and had matching blue cable hangers (cant remember the name of them, they went at the bottom of the brake cable and had another cable from each cantilever brake running through it)
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  • realnumber 1
    realnumber 1 Posts: 675
    cheehee wrote:
    Do you remember those 'corner bags' that went between the angles of the seat and top tube??

    They were padded to help you carry the bike.

    I remember a lad at my school had a GT Timberline, I was so jealous...... :lol:

    Ha, I had a white with black splats Timberline with said corner bag. They were quite useful at the time. I forget what make it was but it was the one to have 8)

    Does anyone remember MBK? When I got my very first mtb (if you can call an Apollo an mtb :? ) the spoilt kid up the road then got a super cool MBK. To say I was jealous....

    I remember when the LED lights first came out. The rear ones were great the moment they came out. Much better than those big round Ever Ready lights that everyone had that got through batteries like nobodies business lol. As for the front ones that were green :? All I can say is I remember getting pulled for it and given a £20 or £30 fine for it lol.

    I also remember that everyone had those rear mech guards too.
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  • Wheelieguy
    Wheelieguy Posts: 139
    realnumber 1 wrote:
    I also remember that everyone had those rear mech guards too.

    Oh aye yeah i remember them, back when replaceable dropouts were standard on nearly all frames everyone had those big metal loops which if you came off heavily would bend in and prevent you from shifting into the bottom sprockets :lol:
    "Don't ask the reasons why cos there arent any, don't follow convention, never say no, just believe in what you see and let the good times roll!"
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    If you buy the Tesco front LED lights today, they're still green!
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  • cheehee
    cheehee Posts: 427
    realnumber 1 wrote:
    cheehee wrote:
    Do you remember those 'corner bags' that went between the angles of the seat and top tube??

    They were padded to help you carry the bike.

    I remember a lad at my school had a GT Timberline, I was so jealous...... :lol:

    Ha, I had a white with black splats Timberline with said corner bag.

    Does anyone remember MBK? When I got my very first mtb (if you can call an Apollo an mtb :? ) the spoilt kid up the road then got a super cool MBK. To say I was jealous....

    I remember when the LED lights first came out. The rear ones were great the moment they came out. Much better than those big round Ever Ready lights that everyone had that got through batteries like nobodies business lol. lol.

    I do remember MBK bikes, I think one lad round our way had one. As for the Ever Ready lights - yep I had some of those bad boys. "Ever Ready" my ar*e the batteries were forever going flat, leaving you with a pale yellowish glow. :D

    Do you remember "Dyno" lights........?

    Oh and Supersonic......'Fred Salmon': In a Mark and Lard Stylee.....Whhoooo?
  • donnie murdo
    donnie murdo Posts: 986
    Onza: Aggro and Honch tires

    Nike: Pooh-Bah shoes

    Oakley: Thermonuclear Protection

    X-Lite: Bar-ends were the ones to have

    Giro: Supermoto Helmet

    Bell: Reebok Pump Helmet

    Volvo Cannondale Racing Team

    Cannondale (I know they are still around but the used to be the bikes to have back in the early 90's)

    Klein

    Pace (before they sold out to DT Swiss)

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  • mattyboy199
    mattyboy199 Posts: 627
    I bought these in 1998 i m surprised how light they are to be honest, things have defo changed. RST got bought out by a japanease firm (was american) back in the day their forks were meant to be very impressive.

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    These are for sale btw.

    Crud claw remeber that, DCD, i also have a bullet brothers chain tensioner. Most manufactures used to make their components in red, blue, green orange, black & silver i suppose it was a fashion or trend back then. X lite used to be a larger company, fox were unheard of, carbon was very pricey & titanium frames were very cool as were disc brakes could you afford them very pricey.
    Show me your green bits i might buy them !
  • mattyboy199
    mattyboy199 Posts: 627
    Dirt,
    Chainspotting,
    Getta grip,
    Dirty tricks and cunning stunts,

    i still have some of these vids
    Show me your green bits i might buy them !
  • Wheelieguy
    Wheelieguy Posts: 139
    mattyboy199 wrote:
    Dirt,
    Chainspotting,
    Getta grip,
    Dirty tricks and cunning stunts,

    i still have some of these vids


    I would love to find Dirt on dvd..

    Chainspotting was one i never owned but have seen loads,

    Getta Grip ive got on vhs somewhere but dont have a decent player,

    Dirty tricks, i found on dvd in halfords not too long ago!
    "Don't ask the reasons why cos there arent any, don't follow convention, never say no, just believe in what you see and let the good times roll!"
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,158
    Remember going to the bike show in London after Jason McRoy had died - his dad on a stand, it was very moving.
  • mikeage
    mikeage Posts: 150
    I never had a DCD...I had a 'Ging' anodised blue to go with my...err...red bike
  • KonaMike
    KonaMike Posts: 805
    This is a great thread !! I started with a Raleigh Mirage and progressed to a Kona Lava Dome with Project 2's and loads of anodized purple bits !! My mate had a Pro Flex which broke every 5 minutes...........those were the days!
  • stu8975
    stu8975 Posts: 1,334
    My first mountain bike...Muddy Fox Courier Comp with all the trimmings.haha

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    Had to chop my head off cos i looked like freeeek when i was a youth.
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  • mattyboy199
    mattyboy199 Posts: 627
    love the rear wheel disc i remember them, careful of high winds !
    Show me your green bits i might buy them !
  • mattyboy199
    mattyboy199 Posts: 627
    mikeage wrote:
    I never had a DCD...I had a 'Ging' anodised blue to go with my...err...red bike

    is their a decent chain device about these days for geared bikes ?
    Show me your green bits i might buy them !
  • gcwebbyuk
    gcwebbyuk Posts: 1,926
    edited December 2008
    Started out with an orange and black marlboro - really cheap shitty thing

    Replaced with a Carerra something - silver and purply pink with a flex stem

    Replaced that with a 1994 Saracen Protrax SE with Rock Shox Judy XC forks - later replaced the elastomers with Speed Springs
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    Added a few gadgets to it, most of which were removed over the years - the sharkfin chainstay protector, a Dave's Chain Device, Crud Catcher with cool MBUK stickers attached underneath, X-lite bits and bobs wherever I could fit them, Planet-X I-beam stem, USE seatpost, and some Mavic X517 ceramic rims on XT hubs (currently for sale).

    All the LX groupset on it still works! The wife has been riding it for the last 4 months and only recently have the gears started to go wonky.

    I even bought the old bright orange Mint Sauce jersey and even considered a Mint Sauce tattoo with a bike chain round my arm
    :oops:

    Think I may still have Dirt on VHS in my spare room too!
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