Bridgestone MB-2

The Bridgestone MB-2 was a classic, non-suspended mountain bicycle that Bridgestone sold alongside the MB-1, and the company's own flyer says 1993 would be the last year it could sell that style of bike. The flyer, headed The Way It Ought To Be, says both bikes used what Bridgestone called original oversize tubing, roughly 12 percent larger than standard road-bike tubing, which it argued kept them springy, lively and comfortable. Their fork carried a crown designed by Tom Ritchey and was meant to flex like a good fork should instead of relying on a suspension fork, since fat air-filled tires were, in the flyer's words, the best suspension ever invented. Sheldon Brown's archive lists the MB-1 through MB-6 as Bridgestone's mountain bike line, begun from a road perspective.