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production summary

Production numbers are often guesswork, especially as mass production moved to Asia and the world moved to riding off road.

Brand	1980s							1990s
Brand	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
Healing	MTB	Mountain Cat 18
Highpath Engineering	Phoenix	Highpath	Cleland Highpath	Hi-Lite		Highpath	Highpath		Highpath
Hillman	Alpine	Alpine	Sherpa			MTB
Kobe	Cascade
Kuwahara	Apollo	Aries	Siera Grande	Puma	Lynx	Mondia Cascade Road	Impulse	Cascade	Carbo-Titan	Pacer
Leeworld	Mountain Sport I		Mountain Sport Limited
Lotus Bicycles	Pegasus	Pegasus	Pegasus		Cherokee	3000M	4000M
Malvern Star	Bushranger	Torago	Trailrider		Ventura		Bushranger		Mahou
Marukin	North Star	North Star			MTB
MCR	Descender	Descender	Descender
Miyata	Ridge Runner	Ridge Runner	Terra Runner OR	Trail Runner	Sky Runner	Ridge Runner Team	Country Runner	Mt. Century	Elevation 10,000'	Elevation 7,000'
Morrison	Sidewinder	Sidewinder	Sidewinder
Nashbar	XT	Terra XT	Terra SL	Terra XT	Terra XC	Terra Alpha 5000	8000DTX		4000X	3000X
Novara	Outback	Outback			Ponderosa	Ponderosa		Aspen	Arriba
Otis Guy	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989		1991	1992
Panasonic	Cobra	All-Terain Bike	Pro-ATB	Pro ATB	Mountain Cat 7500	MC-7500	PICS Team MC 800 Custom	MC-8500	MC Comp	MC Team
Brand	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
Brand	1980s							1990s

2021/11/17 11:28 · gchandler

Worldwide Bicycle Production

Mountain bikes drove an 80's boom in bicycle sales. Graph from: campagnolodelta

US Bike sales from 1981→2005.
Mt. bikes were 10% of US sales in 1984 and doubled to 20% of US sales by 1985.¹⁾ bicycleretailer

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See https://www.cyclepublishing.com/cyclingbooks/dc.html7The Dancing Chain by Frank Berto, page 248

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