Merlin Full suspension

Here is a cool vintage Merlin full suspension. It has a Rock Shox Mag 21 front suspension fork and a rear suspension shock by Pro Flex.
Depending how you view things this frameset is either horribly outdated or still just as cool and functional as it was back in 1992.

Moots Smoothie

This is a Moots Smoothie. It is a titanium full suspension frame. This particular bike has an interesting choice of handlebars and saddle and an interesting setup of those.

Ted Wotjaik full suspension frameset

Ted Wotjaik is a custom builder from USA. This is an early full suspension frame from around 1995 probably. It has a rear end made by Battle (who also made complete frames). IIRC correctly, this frame in an earlier version had an AMP B3 rear end but the AMP rear end was always considered very flexy and had an unsophisticated rear shock. I guess the frame above was a huge step up from the flexy AMP B3 rear end.

Bontrager prototype full suspension frame

I was reminded of Bontrager frames today at work. Bontrager frames are sophisticated steel hardtails with gussets and smart things added on to the frame to keep it working and holding up but keep the weight low.

But Bontrager did also experiment with different materials and setups even after shutting down the frame production at Trek. I don't know if this frame is pre or post Trek (I suspect post), but it is an interesting concept trying to reduce the amount of pivots by using a flexible board over the bottom bracket (same principle as in the Slingshot frame I think). Maybe there was a reason this frame never showed up with a Bontrager (or Trek or Gary Fisher label).