This interesting bike came available but not sure what it even is, the owner said it was built in the PNW and was rare (clearly) but that's all he knows. No head badge or identifiers he can find. The only thing its missing the seat, which im assuming will be difficult to find. Any ideas?
by Early-Confidence-381
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No idea but it’s got white industries cranks, they usually sell for $200 on ebay
Softride beam MTB
Snatch this up unless you’re afraid of being the coolest kid at your locals farmers market. The one on Thursdays, not the Saturday morning one.
The fork is a Girvin. They look cool but don’t ride particularly well.
Take it, build it up for show, mount it as an art piece on the wall. Or at least that’s what I would do.
Risse Racing in Oregon still does shock work on those Girvin forks if you decide to buy it.
What a wild machine!
my dad had too many of these lmao
This bike is cool as shit for nerds like us, but it’s not really that valuable. Even though sellers almost always want big bucks for these soft ride frames 😭
If you grab it, make sure you get the saddle mounting bits with it, I don’t imagine they’re particularly easy to find these days
What’s up with the fork? I’ve never seen a Girvin with the dropouts toward the front.
Typically the dropouts were toward the back of the blade, because the blades are offset so far forward that’s where the needed to be to maintain the desired offset/rake.
Girvin fork, White Industries cranks, Softride frame, Onza HO brakes
It could be an Otis Guy Soft Ride bike or just a soft ride. With all those bits, I would buy it l.
It’s the Shit Bike! Well, not THE shit bike but same model, https://www.bikemag.com/mountain-bikers/now-shtbike.
For whatever reason, lots of independent builders of a certain time were enamoured with the SoftRide System and made beam bikes. MTB and Road. I can only guess it was another exciting evolution in framebuilding after all was left was tandems outside of traditional frame geometry.
Those carbon fiber “beams” are not trustworthy after this much time.
I still think they’re cool. They’re not. But I think they are.