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| ===== Lighthouse Cycles Overview ===== | ===== Lighthouse Cycles Overview ===== |
| Tim Neenan built mostly road frames and bikes from his shop in Santa Cruz. After designing a number of road frames for Specialized, he designed Specialized's first mountain bike, the Stumpjumper. It is likely he made very few mountain bikes over his entire career. He certainly deserves his spot in the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame as <blockquote>"without [Neenan] guiding this first effort the entire launch of mountain bikes might have taken a very different track."<cite>[[https://mmbhof.org/tim_neenan/| mmbhof]]</cite></blockquote> | Tim Neenan built mostly road frames and bikes from his shop in Santa Cruz. After designing a number of road frames for Specialized, he designed Specialized's first mountain bike, the [[https://mbaction.com/the-history-of-the-stumpjumper/|Stumpjumper]]. It is likely he made very few mountain bikes over his entire career. He certainly deserves his spot in the [[https://mmbhof.org/tim_neenan/|Mountain Bike Hall of Fame]]: <blockquote>"without [Neenan] guiding this first effort the entire launch of mountain bikes might have taken a very different track."<cite>[[https://mmbhof.org/tim_neenan/| mmbhof]]</cite></blockquote> |
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| ===== Chaparral ===== | ===== Chaparral ===== |
| Supposedly the similarity to a Ritchey Everest is coincidental. Only a single example produced? | Supposedly the similarity to a Ritchey Everest is coincidental. Only small quantities produced over a few years. |
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| | <blockquote>I built the first Chaparral when I was living in Santa Barbara before moving up to San Jose to take a full-time design and sales position as the first Specialized employee. This was around 1979. The Chaparral was the prototype for what became the Stumpjumper. |
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| | Tim Neenan, in [[https://mbaction.com/the-history-of-the-stumpjumper/|mbaction]] |
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