It's not an MTB...just an aircraft-grade stainless steel work of art....from the pioneer of dual suspension bikes...

http://www.dreambike.com/history2.htm

Last time I checked this was Mountain Bikers Anonymous not road bike anonymous.... IMHO Road bikes are a waste of material and money.

I bet I can find a kona that has better parts for less money!

and the Mountain Bike war begins....


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Kona.....Moulton fist developed dual suspension bikes in 1960....I have ridden one since 1965.....I doubt Fischer even knew what a bike was back then...

Count the years, Kona....we are talking 43 years ago....

First fat-bike with a derailleur ridden off road: As far as I know it was Russ Mahon of Cupertino, California (75 miles south of Marin County), who came up with this combination, in 1973. He grafted derailleurs onto a 1930s balloon0 tire bike built by the Cleveland Welding Company. He also put thumbshifters on this bike. Three Cupertino riders including Mahon showed up at a Cyclo-cross race in Marin, December 1974, pollinating Marin with these ideas. They then departed the scene for more than 20 years


First fat-tire bike with a derailleur and good brakes: Again, as far as I know, it was Russ Mahon’s bike. In 1973 he put front and rear drum brakes and motorcycle brake levers onto his bike.


First fat-tire bike with a derailleur and good brakes in Marin: Gary Fisher’s 1938 Schwinn-built B.F. Goodrich (Excelsior-type), Fairfax, California, September ’74 or summer ’75. This much-photographed bike is equipped as it appeared in late 1978, but it is basically circa 1976.


First fat-tire bike with a new frame and all new parts: Breezer # 1, frame and bike built by Joe Breeze for himself, Mill Valley, California, (Marin County), Oct. 1977. This was one of ten Breezers I built at the time. The frames were built of straight 4130 large-diameter, thin wall tubing. The term “clunker no longer applied to all bikes ridden on Mt. Tam.


First fat-tire bike regularly available: 1979 Ritchey/MountainBikes. In 1979 Tom Ritchey of Redwood City, California (50 miles south of Marin) started building fat-tire frames. From 1980 onward he built hundreds of fat-tire bike frames each year. These were the first bikes sold by Gary Fisher and Charlie Kelly, founders of MountainBikes (later the Gary Fisher Bicycle Company). Fisher and Kelly assembled the frames into bikes and sold them for about $1400.00. In 1979, MountainBikes became the first business to sell mountain bikes exclusively.


First fat-tire bikes widely available under $1000.00: There were two; the 1982 Specialized Stumpjumper, made in Japan for Specialized Bicycle Imports of San Jose, California and the Univega Alpina Pro, also made in Japan for Ben Lawee, owner of Lawee Inc. parent company for Univega in Long Beach, Ca. These bikes, which first appeared at a bike trade show in September 1981, became available in 1982. The price for the Stumpjumper was $850 and the Alpina Pro was $695. Over the next two years, thousands of these bikes were sold.

no one is argueing. I am just asking you to get your facts straight. I know for a fact where mountain bikes started and when they started.

As for your full suspension bike, obviously it dosen't have fat tires and derailluers.

go to www.mbaction.com and ask them guys when mountain bikes started and who started them and you will get the same answer....

I also remember a US Bike mag 'Bicycling' chatting about how some American invented recumbents....in the 70's or there-abouts.....except I had been riding a 1933 Velocycle that same day as I read that....and even my father built one [a recumbent] in Sydney just before the second world war...

So you are saying what jafo? that your bike was the first full suspension bike? give me a few hours on mountainbike.com and I will prove you wrong. Maybe a bike with 2 springs but NOT a mountain bike!

decides I would feel ashamed of my name if it really was a mountain bike. It all started in 75, here in America, trust me.