Slingshot Timeline
25 years of high-performance bicycles
1988 German Magazine “Sportrad” said the Slingshot was not only the smoothest and safest mountain bike they had ever ridden, it was also the “Fastest”.
1990 Martin Stenger finished in the top-ten in the NORBA points series, and Mark Smedly placed 4th in hillclimb events at both the National and World championships.
1990 Mountain Bike Action named Slingshot “ONE OF THE TEN GREATEST MOUNTAIN BIKES OF ALL TIME”.
1991 Bicycling Magazine calls Slingshot “The Fastest Mountain Bike We’ve Ridden…PERIOD!”
1993 Bicycling Magazine reviews the Slingshot Road Bike and writes: “The road Shot instantly responds to a few hard pedal strokes, shooting forward like a horse from a blazing barn” and “I’d hate to race a criterium against someone who’s on this bike, knowing he had such a significant advantage out of every turn”.
1996 Outside Magazine calls the Slingshot MTQ1 mountain bike a “Superior folder”.
1997 Bike Magazine concludes that “a stealth folding bike that works as well as a normal one when it’s put back together is one of the true gifts of this cruel world”.
1997 Mountain Bike Magazine lists Slingshot as “The 11th Most Significant Bike Of All Time”.
1999 Adam Watts wins Seven Springs NORBA National Jr./Expert cross country on his Folding Slingshot.
2003 Brent Bookwalter wins National Colligate Mountain Bike Championship aboard his Slingshot.
2005 Slingshot Ripper dominates Iceman. Slinghot Factory riders Russ Tiles and Jessica Woodard are top Michigan pro men and women finishers, while Niel Sharphorn and Danielle Musto win pro single-speed classes at the classic Iceman Cometh.
2006 Danielle Musto finishes 2nd at 24 Hour Solo NORBA National Championships.
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