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1988

Throwback Thursday: Looking Back to 1988

Do you remember this Thursday?
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Throwback Thursday: Bikes, people and products of 1988

The Trimble Carbon Cross was a stab at the future by designer Brett Trimble. The bike offered a molded, monocoque, carbon fiber frame that weighed only 4 pounds, the lightest frame we had tested up to that time, in 1988. The complete bike…
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Throwback Thursday: High-Tech Mountain Bikes and Components from August 1988

Sometimes we have to look behind us to see how far we've come. That's especially true with mountain bikes.

Klein was one of the premier bike brands in America in those days. The company was famous for building extremely light, top-quality road bikes (thanks in large part to the use of oversized, thin-wall tubing), and they brought that…
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Throwback Thursday: Ned Overend, Bikes and More—1988

Ned Overend posed with wife Pam and daughter Allison in 1988. Ned was the top mountain bike racer in the world in those days, and he's still phenomenal today. He recently placed seventh racing in the pro class at the 2018 Crusher in the…
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