Restoring A Rare 90’s MTB You Can't Get Parts For

The Slingshot Bike, Proprietary Parts, and the Question It Raises About Where Bikes Go Next

Jun 26, 2026

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Video: Seth // Edit: Rich // Words: Daniel

Seth’s latest flipbike project is the 1997 Slingshot…one you’ve seen before if you follow along and a bike that, if you didn’t grow up around mountain biking in the ‘90s, sounds like it shouldn’t work. There’s no downtube. In its place: a steel cable, a spring, and a piece of fiberglass composite called a dogbon…

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