Retro mountain bikes

I had Kona Cindercone from the same year as this Expolsif. It was the first mtb I had with the 'right' geometry. Those Project 2 forks were great also.

Holy shit... that fuckin' chainring is massive!!!!!! Funny how they did downhill back in the day with hardly any travel on their suspension

The drops and jumps were also smaller - but still impressive.

Such an iconic image, takes me straight back to the early-mid nineties. The bike, the equipment, the colours, the brands - the golden age of mtb with it's 1.8" travel forks, experimental FS designs, brake boosters and anodized everything.

Cracking drop-bar-Euclid-machine!

Love the colour ways and double U brake action

1991 Salsa Alacarte with WTB shifter mounts to put thumbies in the drops...

Hardly any travel? That Judy DH has a whole 75mm of travel. Crazy. Builders at the time were adjusting head angles to ridiculously slack angles to compensate. As little as 71 degrees. Madness, it'll never catch on.

Must be a while since a DH racer had a water bottle on their bike.

Don't know if this page has been linked to before, but wow....

Vintage bike pron

Amazing

Crikey.

Well yummy. 88 WTB Wildcat prototype.

@mmccarthy

Yess!