Beasty Carbon !

retrobikeguy · 2. Januar 2007

Ok friends,
I need a bit of background information on beasty bikes, I understand they were German built but ther seems to be very little on the internet about these carbon suspension frames, any Help or comments grateful.

PS Sorry

, I know very little German, but I understand you chaps know english well

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Elevation12,000 · 3. Januar 2007

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ch1988 · 3. Januar 2007

N´ Abend !

Gibts das Bild vom Ellison auch in bunt und hochauflösen ????

Gruss,

ch

Elevation12,000 · 4. Januar 2007

ch1988 schrieb:
Gibts das Bild vom Ellison auch in bunt und hochauflösen ????

Leider nicht, die Anzeige war schwarz-weiss

Elevation12,000 · 5. Januar 2007

Beasty-Bikes Bremsen!

retrobikeguy · 5. Januar 2007

Seems people don't know much about these apart from you Melvin :daumen:

Catsoft · 5. Januar 2007

There was a test in the "Bike" Magazine....

retrobikeguy · 5. Januar 2007

Catsoft schrieb:
There was a test in the "Bike" Magazine....

Anyone got a scan of that at all ?

I have this already

but they are the later model .

retrobikeguy · 1. Juni 2012

Been a long time - an update to beasty frame number 008

Deore LX 7 speed groupset, Araya Rx7 rims, onza Porc tyres, Marzocchi XC-51 fork, titec stem, woodman bar ends, woodman headset,

Enjoy

Stadtkind · 1. Juni 2012

C`mon that frame is not a beauty, maybe its ugly. But it deserves a better groupset! Is this some kind of punishment?

euphras · 2. Juni 2012

The frame screams: " I´m out of the era when everything done with/crafted out of carbon fibre was straight cool! Hey, i´m made from carbon fibre, i´m pretty cool!"
But when you look closer, there are those limitations visible due to the physical properties of carbon/the probable limitations of the production processes of the early nineties. Take a look at the rear suspension bracket for example: At first sight it looks like it´s made of carbon with some laminated aluminum dropouts. When you look closer you see that in fact it´s made of an aluminum sheet covered with carbon fibre on the outside. Hell, even the cantilever studs are rivetted to the aluminum sheet. I bet there´s no structural integration with the carbon part of the suspension bracket except glueing together the parts.

But it´s a nice piece of history from the early beginnings of suspension technology in mountain biking! :daumen:

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El Jorge · 2. Juni 2012

i can tell that the guy behind beasty bikes was andy heimerdinger, now chief-designer behind rose mt-bikes.

retrobikeguy · 2. Juni 2012

Stadtkind - Its all true, it is no beauty, but it is unusual which is why I like it

, I know the LX groupset is classed as substandard for the frame but its all I had spare in my shed and to be honest I think its a good working light groupset.............. good enough until I can justify an XT or XTR groupset anyway

euphras - yes, the carbon swingarm 'Panels' look the part but are pointless I guess :lol:

and you would have thought they would have put more effort in attatching the brake pivots on what seems to have been quite an expensive frame. but it does do the job.

when you look at it all though, the swingarm area was badly thought out, its impossible to adjust the front derailleur and fitting cantilevers leaves very little mud clearance :rolleyes:

RBG

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