...there's an unloved first generation mountain bike looking for a new home. It is probably a Muddy Fox or similar from 83/84. It's owner needs to sell it to me. Or I might just come around and sing all of Showaddywaddy's hits through your letterbox late one night.
Roger you are a pervert. Muddy Fox ferchrissakes? Ritchey, Stumpy, Conquest, Kili Flyer, RockHopper or the proper Japanese fore-runner to the Taiwanese Muddy Foxes; S&G Cycles made by Araya. Or a Highpath or an Apps or a Charlie Cunningham or even a Gary Fisher. Or a Kuwahara. The chainstays were so poorly welded to M-F Couriers that they'd come away from the seat lug and impale people in their thighs.
I couldn't be bothered to type out lots of names. I don't mind what make it is just as long as I can come and rummage in your shed
I have an unloved peugot 'energy' (says on the frame) MTB in the garage. It is a fetching deep blue colour and I think I bought it in the early 90's so it probably isnt what you are looking for. It has a broken left shifter and a few teeth on the cogs are worn but otherwise it's in good shape.
I had a Muddy Fox courier comp. (around about '87-88 in lurid green), it was the most reliable commuter bike I ever had. Maybe the chainstays impaled the second owner.
They had fixed the problem by then, yours was tig welded rather than lugged. Your bike did come with the most enormously long stem in history mind. 150mm on a 19"! What were they thinking?
It was a strange-shaped thing for sure. When I bought it I didn't know much about bikes. It was in the window of Bob Addy cycles and I thought it looked cool.
I had the pathfinder of the same vintage a few years ago as my shitty/city bike. I saw it today leaning against a lampost. Which was nice.
