Bridgestone MB-3-SUS

The Bridgestone MB-3-SUS was a suspension-fork mountain bicycle that Bicycling reviewed in January 1994, priced at $950, one of the suspended Bridgestones shown at the previous September's Interbike trade show. It combined an oversize, ovalized, TIG-welded Tange double-butted chrome-moly steel frame with a Rock Shox Quadra 10 elastomer fork and Shimano Deore LX parts with Rapid Fire Plus underbar shifting, three breaks with the lugged, rigid, thumbshifter bikes of designer Grant Petersen, who had long doubted suspension. The reviewer praised the 71.5 degree head angle that gave the bike its quickness and agility on singletrack. The complete bike weighed 27.3 pounds in the 49 cm size. It was made in Taiwan and distributed by Bridgestone Cycle from San Leandro, California.