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1986: Kestrel's first bicycle, the Kestrel 4000 road bike, is released, featuring all-carbon, fully aerodynamic frame design; 1986: Kestrel is the first in the industry to introduce bladder-molded monocoque carbon structures. 1988: The company unveils the "Nitro" full-suspension mountain bike after collaboration with Keith Bontrager
A Giant Faith 2 downhill mountain bike with 6.5 inches of travel in the front and 8 inches in the rear. Racing a downhill bike at Horseshoe Valley In Ontario. A downhill bike (also known as a downhill mountain bike) is a full suspension bicycle designed for downhill cycling on particularly steep, technical trails.
Many mountain bikes have a full suspension design. In the past, mountain bikes had a rigid frame and a rigid fork. In the early 1990s, mountain bikes started to have front suspension forks. This made riding on rough terrain easier on a rider's arms. The first suspension forks had about 1 1 ⁄ 2 to 2 inches (38 to 50 mm) of suspension travel ...
A 2008 Specialized Stumpjumper with full suspension. The Specialized Stumpjumper is a mountain bike produced by Specialized Bicycle Components. When it was first produced in 1981, the Stumpjumper was the first mass-production mountain bike. The Stumpjumper is still in production, although its design has changed significantly since it was first ...
Salsa has bike frames made in Asia out of aluminum, carbon fiber, titanium, [7] and chromoly steel. [8] They have several bike touring bicycles, fat tire bikes, bikepacking bikes, and gravel bikes, as well as full-suspension mountain bikes. [2] Some Salsa frames are equipped with a unique dropout design that
The Hand Job took an overlooked part of every other bike and made it a focal point for an Ibis, and as such symbolized the company. [8] The BowTi design (released in 1998) [7] was unique in being a full suspension frame that did not use pivots to separate the front and rear triangle. A complex system of flexible titanium tubes provided up to 5 ...
Klein was a bicycle company founded by Gary Klein that pioneered the use of large diameter aluminium alloy tubes for greater stiffness and lower weight.. Klein produced his first bicycle frames while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1970s, and full production runs of frames began in the 1980s.
The Scalpel was a light-weight full-suspension bike designed for cross-country racing with flexible carbon-fiber chain stays instead of a pivot, providing 63 mm of rear travel and 67 mm from model year 2003 on. In 2008, Cannondale introduced an all-carbon Scalpel, and moved the rear shock to enable 100 mm travel.