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This places all timelines onto a single, overloaded page. When a single page was the default, browser performance suffered and the page was often impossible to load. Splitting the timeline into time skewed tables now makes it harder to search for models. Perhaps a non-graphical, consolidated table would work better?
| Brand | 1970s | 1980s | ||||||||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
Craig Mitchell  | Craig Mitchell  | 1977  | 1980  | 1981  | 1982  | |||||
| 1 | 0 | ? | >1 | ? | ||||||
Breezer  | JBX1  | Series I  | Series II  | Series III  |
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| 1 | 9 | 25 | 24 | |||||||
Lawwill-Knight  | Prototype  | Pro Cruiser  | Pro Cruiser  | Pro Cruiser  | Pro Cruiser  | Trail-Blazer  | Pro Cruiser  |
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| 1 | 10 | 75 | 150 | 150 | 115 | 100 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ritchey  | 1978  | MountainBike  | MountainBike  | Everest  | Competition  | Commando  | Team Comp  |
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| <5 | 50 | 150 | 400 | 700 | 700 | 700 | 700 | |||
Schwinn  | Klunker 5  | Spitfire 5  | King Sting 5  | Sidewinder  | Sierra  | High Sierra  | Cimarron  |
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| <30? | <50? | <50? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
Charlie Cunningham  | CCPROTO  | Indian  | Blu-Ner  | Indian  | Racer  |
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| 1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | |||||
Jeffrey Richman  | 1979  | ? | ||||||||
| 1 | ? | |||||||||
Cook Bros  | 1979  | Racing Cruiser  | Cruiser 26  | Bonzo Fury  | Alpine  | Bonzo Fury  | Bonzo Fury  |
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Victor Vincente of America  | Topanga!  | VVA-26  | VVA-26  |
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| 6 | 10 | 10 | ? | |||||||
Lighthouse Cycles  | Chaparral  | Chaparral  | ||||||||
| 1 | ? | |||||||||
Cleland  | Range Rider  | Aventura  | Aventura  | Aventura  | ||||||
Champion  | Squareback 26  | Squareback 26  | ||||||||
Powerlite  | 3 Bar 26  | 3 Bar 26  | ||||||||
| Brand | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 1970s | 1980s | |||||||||
 | production summary |  |
Production numbers are often guesswork, especially as mass production moved to Asia and the world moved to riding off road.
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Worldwide Bicycle Production
Mountain bikes drove an 80's boom in bicycle sales. Graph from:
campagnolodelta
US Bike sales from 1981→2005.
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Mt. bikes were 10% of US sales in 1984 and doubled to 20% of US sales by 1985.6)
bicycleretailer
1)
Early US production numbers went up by a factor of 10 each year: The Birth of Dirt (3rd ed.) by Frank J. Berto.
2)
According to The Dancing Chain by Frank Berto, page 246, 1M mt. bikes were sold in 1984.
3)
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.
4)
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.
5)
Bike sales plateaued during the early 90's before crashing in 1998.
6)
See https://www.cyclepublishing.com/cyclingbooks/dc.html#The Dancing Chain by Frank Berto, page 248
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