titanium mountain bike mongoose bike serial number

but in reality Tomes was slinging an all Ti version of the bike made entirely by the good folks at Merlin.

At a glance this appears to be the same bike that Tomac was using to tear around on the race course. The top of the line IBOC John Tomac Signature Titanium/Steel composite frame was introduced in 1989 and featured a Titanium front triangle made by Merlin bonded to a steel rear end. First it was BMX, but by the late 80s he was racing their mountain bikes and carrying his own line of signature models. However, before JT donned the neon yellow jersey and the turquoise frame he had a successful career racing for Mongoose. I suspect that was the case for many others.

He’s on FB, names James King and he lives in Conroe Tx, I’m not gonna put any personal info on here but look him up if your interested in any of it, there’s pics of most of it on his page and you can contact him through there.I never really heard of John Tomac until he shocked the world by racing a carbon Yeti prototype with drop bars at the 1990 UCI World Championships. And if you’re looking for a real early ‘80’s mongoose I think my buddy still has 1 or 2 of those left and he just bought a huge collection of older stuff a couple of weeks ago, it’s all ‘60’s and earlier stuff. So if your looking for something like that check out their website, they’ve got a lot of cool stuffs from Skyway, SE Racing, Haro, Kuwahara, GT/Dyno, Hoffman, Redline, etc…. (It’s only been a couple of really minor things) but still they made good on it painlessly. And just a little FYI I’ve purchased all but one of them from Planer BMX out of Florida and they’re really cool folks, excellent customer service and any problems I’ve had were taken care of immediately with no hassles. BUT they’re all made of the same materials that the original bike was. I still own a lot of bikes, including 9 “limited edition remakes” of bikes I owned growing up and all of them were between $700 and $1200. That’s pretty cool, BUT for $220 just understand that it’s prolly a mild steel frame and fork, versus 4130 chromoly or aluminum.

Titanium mountain bike mongoose bike serial number