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| Year | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Total Production | 1 | 10 | 60 | 200 | 400 | 2,000 | 10,000 1) | 200,000 | 400,000 | 1,100,0002) | 6,000,000 | 30,000,000 | 50,000,000 3) | 55,000,000 | 60,000,000 | 60,000,0004) | 60,000,000 | 60,000,000 |
1)
Doubling early US production numbers from: The Birth of Dirt (3rd ed.) by Frank J. Berto. Numbers for the next few years will be doubled, assuming the US remains 1/2 the world market in the early 80's
2)
Late production numbers from 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.
3)
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.
4)
Bike sales plateaued during the early 90's before crashing in 1998.
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