1985 Mountain Goat Trials bike

The Trials model was designed for more extreme obstacle riding and featured a taller bottom bracket (13"), shorter chains stays (16.5") and a steeper head tube. This bike is fully fillet brazed including the high rise stem (there is also a 3/4" headset spacer to bring the bars up higher). Many Trials bikes would have only used a single or double chain ring setup but this one has a three rings.









More details @ http://mombat.org/1985_Mountain_Goat_Trials.htm

Bullmoose changes

Since we've had some questions on them, these are just a sample pair which is mostly to confirm the dimensions. Changes will include:
-investment cast clamp (not stamped)
-680mm wide instead of 660mm
-much better miters (especially at the bar/strut intersection)
-slightly lighter tubing
-chrome plate

There is another sample in the works so stay tuned for details.

New production bullmoose bar sample

We've been tossing around the idea of having some new bullmoose type bars produced (AKA: Goat Horns). This was our first sample set and there are some things that need changed. These are the same dimension as the titanium versions we have been selling but will be substantially cheaper (110mm reach, 660mm width, 10 degree rise, 10 degree sweep). We have ordered a second sample with some revisions and in chrome plate. Let me know whatcha think.

Mountain Goat Route 29 #33

Latest and greatest Mountain Goat Route 29. This was our first frame built by Ted Wojcik and it came out great. Powder coat is a candy blue or silver base and it really pops in the sun. A nod to the vintage crowd with the new old stock Rock Shox RS-1 decals on the new Reba. Our second Ted Goat will be arriving any day and then be heading off to Russ Pickett to get a fresh coat of "bamboo". Should be pretty cool.

Greening the shop

We received our latest "services" bill from the City of Statesville and it seemed lower than usual so I went back and looked at the last 15 years worth of bills.....and it was the lowest one yet. The city provides our electricity, sewer, water and trash pickup so it is a decent sized bill. The weather was pretty mild last month so I am sure that helped but we have been slowly working to make the shop "greener" over the past couple of years. I guess it started a couple years back when the city stopped picking up cardboard as part of the trash pickup and installed a couple of centrally located dumpsters. A bike shop does generate quite a bit or cardboard including a large box that encloses each bike. The next step was saving inner tubes for Resource Revival which uses them to make neat items from recycled bike parts. When I was dropping off the cardboard, I noticed a miscellaneous paper receptacle so we set aside a trash can where we put all of our scrap office paper and junk mail. So far we have filled 4 big trash cans full. The restaurant next door has a glass recycling bin so we have a place to put our empty adult beverage containers after a ride. It has taken a couple of years but we have been slowly phasing in compact fluorescent bulbs as the older bulbs burn out. In addition to the bulbs, we started turning off more lights at night and the bathroom light now has a motion sensor on it. The final step was installing a new (non leaky) sink in the bathroom next to the low-flow toilet.

It looks like this has all added up to about $30 a month in savings which will help pay for the improvements.

I almost forgot one of our biggest improvements 5 years or so ago. When we moved into the building, it was still using a cooling tower for air conditioning. This primitive system used a large pump to move water up to the roof where is went through a spray head system that sprayed water onto the tower. The tower was about 4' square and 6' tall with multiple slats on each side. The water was sprayed onto the top slat and trickled down the slats to return to the pond which fed back into the building. The water was supposed to cool off and the system used that temp differential to cool the building. We limped this system along for 8 or 9 years which made for some brutal summer days. You'd be standing out in the showroom with a customer and you would hear the system shut down. This usually resulted in a trip to the roof to clear the rust scale out of the spray heads. Did I mention how hot a black tar roof can get in the middle of summer while changing spray heads in 120 degree water? As a bonus, one trip to the roof was to fish a dead pigeon out of the return pipe!

Ahh, the good old days.

LANO trail work April 2009

Woody Keen, of Trail Dynamics, came down to the Itusi Trial for the weekend to advise us on how to add some more technical trail features. Below are a couple of photos of the weekend.

 
 
 
 

Mountain Goat #30 full pictures

We finally got #30 all built up and have her up for sale now. Most of the built kit is from a Trek Fuel EX7 so it is heavy on the Bontrager parts. The frame was built up with an XL top tube but with a lower standover height and is correct for a 100mm fork. The color is a a heavy metallic lime over a black base and it really pops in the sun light! There is a full description @ http://www.firstflightbikes.com/2008_Mountain_Goat_WTR30.htm

Price is $2,499.99 complete as pictured.