Here's a hint: It has 25/9 gearing, 74.5/71 angles, 13.8 stays, and it's made of Sanko seamless chromoly.
Give up?
Good, so do I.
For today, at least.
(Here, anonymous, I'll save you the trouble: "DEAD BLOG.")
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OK, well, the bike above is a Mongoose. It's actually called the Fraction, which is funny, since that was the name of the Federal flatland frame that Steven Hamilton rode before he got a signature bike. So let me see if I've got this right: Mongoose dumps longtime team members Steve McCann and Simon Tabron, picks up JJ Palmiere and Miles Rogoish, names their new bike after Steven Hamilton's old one, and releases it in McCann's signature color. Good stuff!
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21 comments:
is that really the future of nearly all older pro riders..? get dumped from just about any major sponsors?
I wonder if a Pake BMX frame would break just behind the bottom bracket like their fixed road frame does. (it's not a track frame)
LOL, good shit as usual NER.
Now is not a good time to be an aging vert rider. Not that any time was ever a good time for that, I guess.
escapebmx kid...hahahaha! You must be 12.
All pros (good and bad) must go the way of the dinosaurs at sometime. Just a matter if its done. You've got the dissapearing act; the long faaaaade out; or the humilating type... being dumped by the likes of mongoose in preference for trendy younger riders.
Its your death, choose wisely and don't quite your day job.
Duke Best never should have relinquished control of Mongoose.
That bike was McCann's signature model before he got dumped. It's existed for like 3 - 4 years. Right around the time Mongoose dumped Fuzzy they de-signatured all the signature models.
Thing is, they all had pretty identical specs anyway. How signature is your bike when it's exactly the same as the other signature bike?
Van Homan should have been on EVERY road fools.
Not every pro gets dropped when they get older. I don't see Brian Foster getting dropped. More to it than just being a badass on a bike.
Definitely surprised to see Joe Rich off etnies. I thought he had one of the best parts.
GEJ: Thanks. Maybe I need to start paying closer attention. I think the last Mongoose I remember other than the Fuzz was the...uh...what was the one that Ruben rode called? The Importan?
(Incidentally, my signature color of the moment is red.)
did Ruben even ride the Importan? I thought he was just on a Terrible One with Mongoose stickers most of the time. I guess he could have considering he did ride those Huffy frames.
Trevor Meyer rode the hell out of an Important, though.
Mongoose is a corporation. Or at least owned by one.
The last time I worked for a corporation a co-worker got a 15k salary bump and a new title on a friday and their new position got eliminated on the following monday.
That's what monsters do. They eat and shit anything and everything and have no clue what day, month or even time it is. Shoot first! Then aim. That is a corporation. Like a cookie monster.
Mongoose's top of the line bikes are actually better than a lot of 'rider owned' complete companies' bikes in the same price range.
Why isn't there any Isaac Groundchuck McCrea footage on the internet?
DEAD BLOG
Russ,
It was an Importan, but he rode a T-1 with Mongoose stickers. The original Importan had a tri-moly frame which is what you want for your top of the line signature model bike. After Reuben de-camped for MacNeil the Importan got upgraded to full chromo, which I thought was an odd thing to do.
Even weirder, after the full chromo Importan was released I found original, tri-moly Importans and Fuzzes at a Toys-R-Us for toy bike prices. I guess it was one way to move back inventory.
I know way too much about thoroughly useless things.
to bill:
mongoose, schwinn and raliegh are all owned by a parent company called Dorell. thay make bikes in china.
most companies make cranks with ths sprockets attached(or at least a spider system) shimano..sram..sugino..truvativ?..its been around for 50 yers, russ knows this.
rider that never made a road fools:
(haven't seen them all)..uh.........Ice Money
Steve,
You are getting warmer...Dorel bought Pacific, which owned Schwinn, Mongoose and GT (and Dyno, Powerlite, Robinson and Auburn - though rumors on the VintageBMX boards say that a guy in Iowa now owns the Powerlite, Robinson and Auburn brands - God, I wonder what he paid to acquire these historic BMX brands? Whatever it was he has not yet capitalized on his investment.) Dorel then acquired Cannondale in Feb 2008. They have now reorg'd the bicycle products into a new division called the Cannondale Sports Group, which has a stated goal of becoming the #1 supplier to the Independant Bicycle Dealer (the position currently held by Trek.) They have not acquired Raliegh USA - which is the corporation that also owns DiamondBack.
I love industry stuff
whats next smitty? the first bank to crumble under reccesion gets lots of money and pumps it into road biking?
NO COMMENTS ABOUT ICE MONEY???
YOU KIDS ARE WAY TO YOUNG!
I'll do you one better and tie in an Ice Money AND Mongoose reference from an early 90's ad:
"Yo, I'm no Ice Money, but these new Mongoose freestyle bikes are stupid fresh, Homeboy....know what I'm sayin'?"
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