bike brands I've never heard of before

[thom]

I'm amazed at all the brand names of current, or recent,bikes that I find regularly. I'm sure that there were makers in years gone by that I have yet to hear of, but these recent ones pop up all the time.I just bought , off of Craigslist , a Greenline cruiser bike. I had never heard of Greenline bikes. I have not picked it up yet but will post pics when I can.I have a German built Toscana three speed that looks like a 70s bike. I had never heard of Toscana bikes until I found it.What unusual names have you found? Let's see them.Thanks, and Happy New Year. :!:

 

[Voyager Al]

I have a Guaranty,and a Marathon...

 

[yoothgeye]

These aren't really that rare, but not real common

I had purple anodized answer hyper bar ends on my first decent MTB but the longer ones, I loved the wedge mount they had. I also want your trials bike.

 

[kngtmat]

I have always heard of Murray, Huffy & Schwinn a few times but most of the bike shop bikes I never heard of until the past 3 years.

 

[Sinner4]

I have had a Vanqueir, Marcco and a Double V Engineering, all road bikes. I have a MTB made up in north Idaho, not sure of the name, its put away. I was told that the Vanqueir was a rebadged unit, Marcco was from Idaho and the Double V was from Aurora CO.

 

[yoothgeye]

I'm more curious about pre 60s odd bike names, during the bike boom of the 70s and with cheap China manufacturing now there are many "rebadged" bikes that all come from the same company, so I don't fret much when I see a newer bike with an oddball name.

 

[socal_jack]

Those Manitou mtbs are pretty rare, especially unbroken. Though Manitou still exists as a fork maker as they started out, that was a very brief and unsuccessful foray by them into making bikes, by putting essentially the same shock at both ends of the bike.

 

[Murray-Eliminator]

I'm more curious about pre 60s odd bike names, during the bike boom of the 70s and with cheap China manufacturing now there are many "rebadged" bikes that all come from the same company, so I don't fret much when I see a newer bike with an oddball name.

It was pretty much the same back then also, Murray made many bikes that were rebadged for different retail and wholesale distibuters. like Sears, Penny's, and 100's of others!

 

[yoothgeye]

It was pretty much the same back then also, Murray made many bikes that were rebadged for different retail and wholesale distibuters. like Sears, Penny's, and 100's of others!

True, I knew someone would bring this up, it's just that I prefer knowing the older rebadge names to the newer ones.

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

my wife gave me a Greyhound for Christmas. Not a very popular name brand apparently.

 

[yoothgeye]

my wife gave me a Greyhound for Christmas. Not a very popular name brand apparently.

That's actually a very popular name... I'm assuming she gave you a bus or a race dog.

 

[Murray-Eliminator]

here are a few we have documented that Murray made biciycles for!

http://murrayeliminatormusclebikes.yuku ... er-Project
X1 = Atkins
X3 = Vanguard??? Murray badged
X6 = Flying O (Otasco-Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company)
X7 = BF Goodrich
X8 = Firestone
X10 = Westernflyer (Western Auto)
X12 = All Pro (Kmart)
X13 = Murray
X18 = Hiawatha (Gambles)
X23 = Murray
X25 = Foremost (JC Penneys)
X26= Guaranty's
X28 = Fleetwing Tigercat
X30 = Gambles
X31 = Gambles
X32 = Parkleigh
X34 = Liberty (Chicago Cycle Supply Company)
X35 = Liberty (Chicago Cycle Supply Company)
X36 = Liberty (Chicago Cycle Supply Company)
X40 = Murray
X43 = Murray
X55 = Murray (Gordon Bicycle Supply Co.)
X56 = Ben Hur
X63 = Hallmark
X65 = Murray - Special for 1965 (in 65 only, could have been used other years as a different meaning)
X67 = Sportscrest
X69 = Special for 1969 (in 69 only, could have been used other years as a different meaning)
X70 = Special for 1970 (in 70 only, could have been used other years as a different meaning)
X71 = Sportscrest (?) Also Special for 1971 (in 71 only,could have been used other years as different meaning)
X73 = Walco badge and Dayton badge ( Walthour & Hood Co. in Atlanta)
X81 = Murray
X82 = Murray
X83 = Might actually be a Sears number??????
X84 = Murray
X92 = Federal
X95 = AMC
X97 = Murray
X98 = Swarthmore

 

[Terry66]

I got this Rugby off another forum member. It seems to be a unique brand and frame style. At least I've never seen another one!