We've been moving some bikes around and taking some pictures of bikes that we have had for a LONG time. Most of these have been around at least 8 or 10 years and go back to our earlier days of collecting. These are bikes that are much more common but also are bikes that many of us rode or even wished we could afford while we rode the lesser-priced cousins of these bike.
Going back through old magazines, I wonder how much Diamond Back spend on ads for this bike:
More pics and details @ http://www.mombat.org/1987_Diamond_Back_Arrival.htm
The Alien was the working mans version of the Mantis bikes. Neat looking bike with the chrome rear and chrome fork:
More pics and details @ http://www.mombat.org/1990_Nishiki_Alien.htm
Another bolt-on rear end on the Fisher CR-7. I think MBA called this the best handling bike ever?
More pics and details @ http://www.mombat.org/1989_Fisher_CR7.htm
And for the Bridgestone fans, the MB-1 that has unfortunately lost its original fork:
More pics and details @ http://www.mombat.org/1993_Bridgestone_MB1.htm
And I guess this one is questionably "blue-collar" but it is Taiwanese. Some day I wouldn't mind finding a little better example.
More pics and details @ http://www.mombat.org/1991_Bridgestone_MB0.htm
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Cool. I remember all these bikes when new - and owned a MB Zip.
ReplyDeleteI sold my Zip not long ago. Almost stock, pretty clean - probably should have hung on to it. Shop I sold it to planned to display it, but wound up selling it. Wacky enough, the dude that bought it found my blog story and we've been blog pals since.
Pics and story on my Zip:
http://yoeddy.blogspot.com/2009/05/personal-rides-bridgestone-mb-0.html
Yours looks to have been cleaner than this one. Too bad it is gone!
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