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anyone else herd of this brand ?

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nathstewart

Discussion Starter · Jun 17, 2009

hey everyone i would like to pick your brains for a second my DJ frame is a Univega ram
and everyone i speak to has never herd of them and ive never seen it before. ive had it for some time now and it is actually a really nice frame made of alluminium. am i the only one who owns one of these or are there other people out there with this frame or who know about it. i will post up some pictures later on

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nathstewart

Discussion Starter · #2 · Jun 17, 2009

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perttime

· #3 · Jun 17, 2009

Univegas are not uncommon in Europe.
My feeling has been that they are on the cheap side but, apparently, they make some quite decent bikes too.

http://www.univega.com
http://www.univega.co.uk/
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/mountain/product/ram-es-970-09-34204

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Jerk_Chicken

· #4 · Jun 17, 2009

The last I saw them in the US was at the end of the 90's. They had several mtb designs, the FS's were URT junk, and the geo was incredibly messed up on the HT frames. I remember seeing a shop who carried them and the bb's were low, like road bikes. Almost like they tried to adapt road frames to mtb.

It looks like in Europe, they are a different company, but I mostly see them as commuter type bikes.

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nathstewart

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jun 17, 2009

thanks guys for the quick responses thats most probly why no one here in the UK has herd of them then. i find it hard to believe they made crap bikes though unless ive got one that is actually decantly made

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dobby156

· #6 · Jun 17, 2009

If it works for you, i wouldn't worry if no-one heard of it

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nathstewart

Discussion Starter · #7 · Jun 17, 2009

lol cant argue with that

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JmZ

· #8 · Jun 17, 2009

nathstewart said:
hey everyone i would like to pick your brains for a second my DJ frame is a Univega ram
and everyone i speak to has never herd of them and ive never seen it before. ive had it for some time now and it is actually a really nice frame made of alluminium. am i the only one who owns one of these or are there other people out there with this frame or who know about it. i will post up some pictures later on

Still have a Univega. It's a mid 90's hardtail. Univega in the states did dissapear in the late 90's/early 00's. They had/have? a European division that continued on.

I look at 'em as another fallen brand. They were one of the early mass produced mountain bikes, along with Specialized. And they did have some decent stuff into the 90's, but started to move downmarket. Taking a look at their full suspension bikes were a pretty good guage of where they were going, they had a Ti dually back in 94/95, then an Aluminum 4 bar (looked like a Rocky Mountain Element) after that, and then the URT (wh)Y bike design.

The steel hardtail I've got was and still is, one of the best woods bikes I've ever been on. The only parts left stock from the orig build are the stem, front mech, barends, and frame.

JmZ

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nathstewart

Discussion Starter · #9 · Jun 17, 2009

christ i feel like a newb compared to you lot, you rlly know your stuff. im glad to hear that someone else out there has one and is happy with it still. i rlly wouldn't have imagined them as a brand going that far back i thought they were fairly new seems as no one i know had heard of them.

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VTSession

· #10 · Jun 17, 2009

My first decent mountain bike was a late 90s Univega rigid bike. It wasn't anything special but it got me hooked on riding.

New Univegas look interesting

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