Old School For Life!

[gungywump]

The way the discussion was headed with bar ends got me to thinking about Old School Stuff.
What was your first mountain bike:Model, Brand, Year, Equipment and what other stuff do you remember from "The Good Old Days"?

My first mountain bike was a Fisher Montare back in 1987. It had:
Original Deore XT derailers and Cranks
A Doug Bradbury roller cam rear brake mounted under the chainstays.
Friction shifters
A Hieght Right spring on the seatpost
Big motorcycle sized Dia Compe Levers
Bullmoose Handlebars
Fisher Fattrax Tire 2.125(Still the best tire I have ever had Tioga DH tires are similar)
Grab On foam grips
Advocet Leather Saddle.
Araya RM20 Rims

In fact I still have a Fisher Procaliber from 1989 in my basement.
All Original!
When Fisher's were made by Gary Fisher and not just called Gary Fisher's!!
Remember Scott Shock's and Rock Shock Mag 20's I've got them both! I've got a big box filled with old school ****.

[turch]

How about a lugged Trek 970 complete with a pepperoni fork. Lemme see. Bullmoose bar/quill stem combo, push/push rapidfires (lasted all of about 2 months). Upgraded the bar to the Scott Brahmas before getting turned onto Answer Taperlites. Oh, and for some reason the wheelset was bizzare with Mavic 531 (I think) hubs with a 7pd freewheel (but man these things were drag free smooth). Then there was the Trek labelled Showa fork (couldn't hang the bike upside down without it raining oil) but at least the seals were only simple O-rings. Talk about crap. The upgrade to this was the venerable Mag21.

[splat]

My first Mt Bike , was a 1983 Specilized Stumpjumper , with Suntour Mountech dereailers ( 6 speed, I still have one ) thumb shifters, the Handlebars and stem were 1 piece, the wheels were bolt on ( becausea Quick release wheel would not be strong enough to stand the pressues from Mt biking)
Dia Comp Cantilever brakes with brake handles that looked like they came off of a Motor cycle

Mt bike #2 ( still ridgid ) 1987 Fat Chance , I bought in 1989, Had Suntour Friction shifting equipment ( would later upgrade to XT ). I had a Pair of those scott handle bars with climbing bars in them. I loved this bike , I rode it till the frame failed.

Does any one remeber the old Suntour Power-cam Brake ?

Indeed this thread started in Bar Ends poll. JT informed us that he still has some old school parts on his Superlight..he would be doing us a diservice not to chime in.

As for for me:

First Bike: 1987 Specialized Stumpjumper, Suntour derailleurs, thumbshifters, Araya rims, 'meaty' brake handles, Dia Compe cantilever breaks, mushroom grips (?), and a beefy saddle

the next bike was a Cannondale with original Coda cranks and deore rear der., and the infamous Trek Shock from Showa...

[johnnyt]

Ah, my first mountain bike...1991 Trek 930, fully rigid, all LX with rapid fires, great bike, but not very exciting. Second bike, now that is a retro dreamboat...
Custom Stowe steel frame with a 1" steer tube, english racing green, mag 20, grafton joysticks, fir rims, white bros front hub and suntour grease injector rear hub, suntour xc pro thumbshifters (the front one is on my santa cruz), and derailers (rear derailer is also on the sc), ti bolts everywhere, gravity research rim crusher brakes and seat post, syncros ti bb, syncros stem and syncros crank-o-matics, diacomp ss-7 brake levers, coda bar.

She was a beautie!!! Now she is in pieces. A bunch of her wound up on the superlight, shifter, derailer, seatpost and seat, crank-o's. I can't decide what to do with her. Should she be a ss? Should I convert her into a commuter? It seems a shame to let it just hang there after so many years of love...

[gungywump]

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Does any one remeber the old Suntour Power-cam Brake ?
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Yeah, same as what came on my Fisher Montare but it was designed by Doug Bradbury and labeled as such.

Remember the Nishiki Alien designed by Richard Cunningham? Elevated Chainstays and rigid.

How about HED tension discs?

Answer Hyperlight Bars?

[johnnyt]

Anyone willing to admit the had a garvin flex-stem?

My wife has an old Klein Attitude that I am trying to find a set of mission control bars for...

[gungywump]

Anyone ever heard of a section of trail at Guidas in Middlefield, Ct. called Jon's Elbow??

Well it wouldn't be called that if I didn't have that shitty Girvin Flexstem on the Rig I was riding! No control once that beatch started to flex!

Also I'd like to point out that I was fully suspended in 1992. An Offroad(pre-Pro-Flex, pre-Noleen, pre-K2) 992. Ironically I don't own a single suspension bike today.

[gungywump]

Oh Yeah. About that Girvin Flexstem. First and only time I ever rode it. Bought some Rockshox as soon as I healed.

[I Are Baboon]

This is only my third season of MTB. My first bike was a 2001 Rocky Mountain Spice. Who says 28 was tool old to start riding!?