This is an old revision of the document!
Table of Contents
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
“without [Neenan] guiding this first effort the entire launch of mountain bikes might have taken a very different track.” mmbhof
Time Neenan jseephoto.com
Chaparral
Supposedly the similarity to a Ritchey Everest is coincidental. Only a single example produced?
1979 Chaparral mbaction
Designed by Tim Neenen
It is unknown how many mountain bikes Neenan ever put a torch to. But his name is stickered across more mountain bikes than any other: the Specialized Stumpjumper, Stumper Sport and the Sequoia. Plus his signature is on the Specialized Allez road bike and his own Lighthouse Cycles.
de-signed chiefcyclery
2013 Lighthouse mountain bike
A 2013 Lighthouse custom mountain frame. They exist.
2013 Lighthouse columbusmaxbikes
Production Notes
[1]. First bike in 1979: mbaction.com
[2]. Other mt. bikes exist, quantity unknown.