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| @#F0F0F0:**<fs x-large>Year</fs>**| @#F0F0F0:<fs x-large>**1970s**</fs> |||| @#F0F0F0:<fs x-large>**1980s**</fs> |||||||||||@#F0F0F0:<fs x-large>**1990s**</fs>|||
|       :::                     | @#F0F0F0:**6** | @#F0F0F0:**7** | @#F0F0F0:**8** | @#F0F0F0:**9** | @#F0F0F0:**0** | @#F0F0F0:**1** | @#F0F0F0:**2** | @#F0F0F0:**3** | @#F0F0F0:**4** | @#F0F0F0:**5** | @#F0F0F0:**6** | @#F0F0F0:**7** | @#F0F0F0:**8** | @#F0F0F0:**9** | @#F0F0F0:**0** | @#F0F0F0:**1** | @#F0F0F0:**2** | @#F0F0F0:**3** | 
| @#F0F0F0:**<fs x-large>Total Production</fs>** | @#F0F0F0:**1** | @#F0F0F0:**10** | @#F0F0F0:**60** | @#F0F0F0:**200** | @#F0F0F0:**500** | @#F0F0F0:**2,000** | @#F0F0F0:**15,000** ((Early US production numbers went up by a factor of 10 each year: [[https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Dirt-Origins-Mountain-Biking/dp/1892495619|The Birth of Dirt (3rd ed.)]] by Frank J. Berto.)) | @#F0F0F0:**200,000** | @#F0F0F0:**1,000,000**((According to [[https://www.cyclepublishing.com/cyclingbooks/dc.html|The Dancing Chain]] by Frank Berto, page 246, 1M mt. bikes were sold in 1984.)) | @#F0F0F0:**2,500,000**((Late production numbers from [[https://ur.booksc.org/book/51351438/a06749|booksc.org]] "From Marin County's Seventies Clunker to the Durango World Championship 1990: A History of Mountain Biking in the USA", by Savre, Frédéric, Saint-Martin, Jean, Terret, Thierry, August 2010.  This source counted 550,000 mt. bikes sold only in the //US//.)) |@#F0F0F0:**6,000,000**|@#F0F0F0:**30,000,000**|@#F0F0F0:**50,000,000** ((Mountain bikes drove a doubling of world wide bike sales during the 1980's to a peak of 110 million in 1988, of which 50% were mountain bikes, or at least 50 million.  By 1990, mt. bikes were 65% of the market, or roughly 60 million.  Sources: [[https://www.ibike.org/library/statistics-data.htm]], [[https://ur.booksc.org/book/51351438/a06749]].))|@#F0F0F0:**55,000,000**|@#F0F0F0:**60,000,000**|@#F0F0F0:**60,000,000**((Bike sales plateaued during the early 90's before crashing in 1998.))|@#F0F0F0:**60,000,000**|@#F0F0F0:**60,000,000**|