Click links below to view the Moots bikes in our collection:
1983 Mountaineer 24 "wheels
1983 Moots Mountaineer 24" frame
1990 Moots
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July 1982 Moots ad:  |
| 1983 |
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March 1983 Moots Mounts ad:  |
| 1985 |
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Listed as having built 320 frames to date August 1985 Interview: 
 June 1985 ad:  |
| 1987 |
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March 1987 ad:  |
| 1988 |
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October 1988 Ad:  May 1988 Ad:  |
| 1989 |
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July 1989 Bicycle Guide magazine:  |
| 1991 |
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January 1991 Moots ad:  |
| 1994 |
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January 1994 YBB:  |
| From the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame |
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Kent
Erikson
Kent is a native of West Bend, Wisconsin. In 1975,
he founded a bike shop in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. His specialty
was building touring bikes for trails and dirt roads. In 1978, Kent
began building his own custom frames for balloon tires with multiple
gears and cantilever brakes. Kents invention of the Moots Mount,
an adjustable cantilever brake stud patented in 1980 led to the
development of the Moots Mountaineer bicycle. This bike went on to
win the first NORBA Off-Road National Championships in Solvang,
Califonia. In 1984, Kent invented what we now call bar-ends; those
nifty, multi-position gadgets found on so many mountain bikers
handlebars today.
In 1986, Kents futuristic thinking guided him to develop rear suspension for his bikes called YBB (Why Be Beat). So simple in its design and effective that in 1995 Hall of Famer, Tom Ritchey, started incorporating Kents design and parts on his top-of-the-line XC bikes. Kents source of inspiration for his innovations came from years of mountain bike racing. In 1984, he finished 5th in the Nationals at Boulder, Colorado. In the past ten years, Kent has been a top-ten finisher in the Colorado Off-Road Point Series, finishing second in 1994. |
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