Which full suspension bike is this?

mike_plumbs

I got this for $10 from my neighbor, who had it laying around for years. As you can see, the rear shock is gone, but the rest is there. It doesn't have any marks or model name, only a serial number at the bottom. It has Shimano Deore and Tranz X parts. Can someone tell me which bike this might be, just by looking at the picture?

Originally asked by Jinafen on Stack Exchange (bicycles) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Fairly common late 1990's 'copy' of the original Specialized FSR Stump jumper, using a single pivot rather than the Horst link Specialized used (which was patented back then). Several manufacturers toyed with this 'kinds a motorbike' frame design before falling back to more traditional 'tubes' design. Weight was always a problem as soon as you moved away from a triangle and had cantilevers with open ends or solid beams instead of rear triangle. Great thing about that era was frame designers were 'brave enough to be different' and so were consumers. Shimano Deore indicates either a reasonable quality bike or it has been upgraded. Deore (on its own) was re-introduced as a name in 1999 with 9...

Full answer by mattnz: https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/a/93704 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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