Retro mountain bikes

Though our beloved forum deserves a place dedicated to vintage mountain bike, here you can post any kind of vintage off road whip, including yours..

http://www.vintagemtbworkshop.com/1987-steve-potts-signature.html

Good initiative !

Neo-retro and/or townies acceptable, or period-correct only?

Neo & townies are welcome

Aight apologies up front for my weird tastes in this stuff.

No idea whether they were good, but as a teenager I was loving these "SBIKES" in the mountain bike magazines. Never seen one in real life.

Bought this tank few days ago:

Some stuff to do, sounds like a winter project

So nice

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1997 ( I think ) Heckler

I did. A friend had exactly the same as this one. Except from the design they weren't that fantastic.

My unfinished project

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Another one of mine

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Really nice one, love the wheels..

Would it be a shame to mount some V-brake on a vintage MTB ?

No pictures to add to this, just wanted to request that the thread title be changed to something confusing and impenetrable so no-one can actually understand what niche category they are viewing. Also acronym like HBTARMTB or summat.

good thread good thread

Paint scheme recently dug out of the archive

Peak MTB

paging @picco for a shot of his decathlon ... yep you read right.

@Skülly retrobikers would grumble at it being called retro. It's no Overburys.

Think the Cannondale, Kona and Rocky Mountain qualify though 😉

My daily ride - 1989(ish?) Raleigh Montage, £60 ebay find. Here it is in towpath / commuter mode and just before setting off on a jaunt from London to Paris last week.

Reader's missus. Obligatory crap pic.

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Always wanted one of these...

Sadly not yet. But one day!