[w00dy]

At one point, I owned one of these:

credit goes to justmtb44 for this hack

 

[Straya]

yeah, they didnt even need to put a pad or shim in there to make it fit...just a zip tie

Sure its an Avy shock then?

 

[IH8Rice]

Sure its an Avy shock then?

you know they use shims right?

 

[jimmy5willy]

Some of my rides past AND PRESENT....

Manitou FS

Proflex 856

GT's STS & LTS

GT RTS

Specialized Stumpjumper FSR

Giant ATX 900 (1st gen)

Giant ATX 970 (1st gen)

Coyote Ultralite Prototype!!! The only one in existance?

 

[lovebunny]

we have a really cool one at my shop. ill get a pic and post it on here. its one of the old manitous. its in great shape

 

[dump]

sweet revival.

 

[Pip3r]

Another one for the books...

This one doesnt look too old but definitely obscure. Cable discs?! They must have blown their budget machining all the other stuff

http://www.krutor.cz/bikes/hrotor/en.htm

 

[Pip3r]

Actually, I retract my cable disc brake comment as that thing has such wack geo that whoever is riding it cant be going that quick or will most likely crash to a stop anyways

 

[goodgrief]

Some of my rides past AND PRESENT....

Coyote Ultralite Prototype!!! The only one in existance?

i remember seeing adverts for that style of seatstay suspension conversion that could be fitted to any hardtail frame.

 

[roel_koel]

some old rides of mine, mid 1990s

 

[James]

i remember seeing adverts for that style of seatstay suspension conversion that could be fitted to any hardtail frame.

Yeah, I think it was called the "Shockster" or something...

 

[ire]

Found this surfin' the net last night, wasn't even looking for bikes.

Kind of a cool design but that seat post thing is gawd awful.

Looks like hose clamps are holding the seat post on

 

[HardtailHack]

I thought this would be the best place to post this, what the hell was a Peak Carbon Pro-UD DH fork?
I have never seen one before-
http://www.crazypages.de/parts_gabeln.html

More weird forks-
http://www.crazypages.de/parts_gabeln1.html

 

[tartosuc]

2 old ones i had.
the mongoose was the first "dh" bike i had... a whooping 4.5'' of travel..there was also a 6'' travel version that existed.

 

[jimmy5willy]

Yeah, I think it was called the "Shockster" or something...

I've recently looked into the Shockster and mine is nothing like that.
The shockster has twin coil springs running up the seat stays and looks like it's made out of Mechano..
http://www.motoredbikes.com/showthread.php?t=16158

Mine has twin elastomers (so predating the shockster?) pertruding horizontally rearward AWAY from the rear axle. The leftmost nut you see gets pushed out about 2" by the end of what looks like a piston. Whatever it is, it's inside the elastomer. It's insane! Theres also some nice CNC/milling on the plates. Most importantly though, mine is a permanent weld on. That's not saying some entrepreneur did that themself, but without my freakish add-on the frame has no dropouts.

 

[Orvan]

Anyone remember GSR??

http://www.gsrbikes.com/bike_fr.html

The GSR team riders were rocking a pretty trick UD fork then as well, the Razor rock Anti-PAsta (which is probably one of the worst name to give a fork) fork with carbon fiber uppers.

Then near the end of the GSR's life, Mike revealed a 14" travel frame -- using a wound-up elastomer spring system.

 

[NoUseForAName]

What i expected to see, so i'll just leave this here.

 

[IH8Rice]

Then near the end of the GSR's life, Mike revealed a 14" travel frame -- using a wound-up elastomer spring system.

i thought it was a "normal" pull shock?

 

[Sandwich]

i thought it was a "normal" pull shock?

the 14" had the pullshock (yikes) but he later released a "twist" shock version that was supposed just an elastomer. I have a photo on my home computer, beautiful packaging but an elastomer really?

 

[IH8Rice]

ugh, they made something worse then the Mach 9?

 

[Pslide]

I remember being in a bike shop in Reno and someone who knew Mike G (from GSR) was explaining to me how Mike felt a regressive leverage ratio was optimal for DH and designed all his bikes that way...

 

[ire]

I had a friend that raced on their team (I think it was '98). He had the Mach 9 with their superlight fork. All I had was a Super 8, so I thought his bike was the sh!t

 

[ire]

Anyone remember their crazy DH rig with the snowmobile shock? There were a few floating around Oregon.

 

[dump]

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Anyone remember their crazy DH rig with the snowmobile shock? There were a few floating around Oregon.

very well. dhjunkie on here had one.

 

[ska todd]

I was visiting a dealer near Milan on Wednesday and spied this beautiful piece of downhill history.

It's Corrado Herin's Sintesi Bazooka race bike from the 1998 season.

-ska todd

 

[epic]

Awesome bike from an awesome season. Thing sure is ugly though.

 

[Sandwich]

awesome

 

[thad]

That thing is dope. I did not realize it had two linkages. I had noticed the rear scissor linl, that stiffens the rear end, but had not seen the link that alter leverage ratio that's tucked in there...

Did you bust out the tape and measure WB, CS, and BB height?

Those michelins were the best tires of their day. Somehow I was on the Gazzi JR & Intense 2.5" indestructo tire bandwagon at that time...

 

[big-ted]

And then there was the successor to the bazooka:

Major bonus points to anyone that can find pictures of the Colella Viper. Made by Louis Colella who Sintesi allegedly stole major aspects of the design from. I remember one of the big mags at the time (MBi?) had a test of the Viper. Retail was 8k pounds and it had some kind of gold coating on the brake rotors...

 

[scottishmark]

Major bonus points to anyone that can find pictures of the Colella Viper. Made by Louis Colella who Sintesi allegedly stole major aspects of the design from. I remember one of the big mags at the time (MBi?) had a test of the Viper. Retail was 8k pounds and it had some kind of gold coating on the brake rotors...

I've tried to find the Viper a few times (lovely trellis frame) with no luck, binned the copy of MBi (skids and wheelies monthly ) many years ago too (it had a good interview with Mr.Colella iirc)

don't forget this Bazooka too:

and yes, it does look as steep as that in real life!

 

[big-ted]

I've tried to find the Viper a few times (lovely trellis frame) with no luck, binned the copy of MBi (skids and wheelies monthly ) many years ago too (it had a good interview with Mr.Colella iirc)

It's funny. I actually bumped into Louis a few years ago working a warehouse job between school. Seems he lost interest in the bike business and getting ripped off (at least according to his accounts) by Sintesi was the final straw. An entertaining guy to chat to, that's for sure!

 

[epic]

And then there was the successor to the bazooka:

That thing looks hot! I'd ride it right now. Looks kinda VPPish too. Now that other Bazooka - it just looks like it's broken.

 

[weedkilla]

Wanted that original Bazooka so badly......Test rode this

Bought this

None were actually very good, but I thought it was all so cool.....

 

[epic]

I raced that Bianchi - of course it was Celeste. I think I had a DH3 on it before I got a Z.1

 

[mandown]

 

[Sandwich]

u trollin son?

 

[Honus]

Major bonus points to anyone that can find pictures of the Colella Viper. Made by Louis Colella who Sintesi allegedly stole major aspects of the design from. I remember one of the big mags at the time (MBi?) had a test of the Viper. Retail was 8k pounds and it had some kind of gold coating on the brake rotors...

I assume this isn't the Viper you're looking for- it's all I could find at a quick glance through my archives. I'll keep looking when I have more time.

Here's another strange one- Saracen with front/rear linked elastomer suspension and telelever type fork.

 

[scottishmark]

so close, think that was the first one or something though. The one I'm thinking of was much more spectacular, think the sort of frame usually reserved for a Ducati Monster!

 

[big-ted]

I assume this isn't the Viper you're looking for- it's all I could find at a quick glance through my archives. I'll keep looking when I have more time.

Oooh. Not quite. As Mark says, the one I'm thinking of had a crazy truss frame. I didn't realise he'd called multiple bikes "Viper" though, so cool to see that one!

 

[Smelly]

Craigslist find of the day. Man, I wanted one of these so badly back then.
http://westernmass.craigslist.org/bik/2984856373.html