It seems a bit of news has leaked out that confirms that a “new” twenty nine inch wheeled bike is available from a name that harkens back to the birth of mountain biking in the modern era. First Flight Bicycles, a noted collecter of vintage bicycles, and parts, has commissioned a run of steel hardtail mountain bike frames under the Mountain Goat moniker, with the permission of the originator of the mark, Jeff Lindsey. The first run of frames will all be 26 inch wheeled frames. The plans are to also produce a 29 inch wheeled frame, and any wheel size can be produced with custom geometry, or paint, for an upcharge. The custom paint will even be sprayed by the original Mountain Goat paint man!

For those of you that may be in the dark here, Mountain Goat, founded by Jeff Lindsey, was a premier hardtail, steel mountain bike frame maker from the early eighties until the mid-ninties. It’s most popular and well known model, arguably, was the Whiskey Town Racer, noted for it’s “team” paint scheme in orange with green splatter. These new frames will carry the same model name, but will be a modernized version with 1 1/8″ head tubes, suspension corrected for 80mm fork geometry, and disc brake mounts. Paint will be a rather subtle, ( for a Mountain Goat) green powder coat. However; as previously mentioned, you could get any past Mountain Goat paint scheme, including the “Team” scheme, for an upcharge.

For more information, go to First Flight Bicycles