Sometimes you can only fully appreciate innovation in hindsight.

The ATX provided the inspiration for countless mountain bikers to give DH racing a try.

Only ten of these signature frames were ever made.

Sea Otter has given us some memorable bike designs, including an '80s Miami theme and lots of glitter.

The Lahar M8 still looks like it's from the future more than fifteen years after its debut.

Nico Vouilloz's Sunn Radical was ahead of its time in the late '90s.

Travel back to the early 2000s on this California-made aluminum trail bike.

What's better than one fork? How about two?

Kirkcaldie's DHR was the stuff of dreams back in 2006.

Robert Reisinger's vision of what a mountain bike should be still challenges contemporary mountain bike designs

Fourteen years ago, this is the bike that CG brought to the Red Bull Rampage.

Horst Leitner - the man behind the "Horst Link" - made the first production dual-suspension bike to bring the fight to the elite cross-country hardtail crowd.

Twenty years ago, Jon Whyte and Adrian Ward resolved the negative effects of brake dive and fork trail while they were marooned in Asia by a massive typhoon. Their novel creation was named after Preston, Wallace and Gromit's robot dog.

Charlie Cunningham, innovator, pioneer frame builder, and co-founder of WTB was far ahead of his time

The Bontrager Race Lite raised a rusty middle finger to the status quo--it was also years ahead of its time and a true classic in every sense of the word.

The LTS was ahead of its time back in 1995, and helped usher in the next generation of full suspension mountain bikes.

An influx of sponsorship and Yeti's unexpected purchase by Schwinn gave rise to one of the sharpest looking DH bikes of all time.

With a steel cable and a spring for a downtube, the Slingshot was one of the more unique bikes to appear during mountain biking's formative years.

Two shocks, carbon fiber, and eight inches of travel back in 1995.

No other bike promised so much, yet delivered such evil. Behold the Klein Mantra.

Clark-Kent's wild fatbike rolled on four rims - and four tires - that were attached to a custom-made steel frame designed specifically for the legendary Iditabike race through Alaska.

Watch this video, as pioneer bike builder Joe Breeze walks us through what is arguably the most important bicycle in the brief history of mountain biking.

Take a trip back in time to an era when purple anodizing was all the rage.

An experimental design that was inspired by a chance meeting between RC and Gary Fisher.

With its carbon and aluminum matrix tubing, the C-26 was seemingly from the future when it debuted back in 1989.

Take a trip back in time with this unique titanium hardtail.

Sweetheart Cycles was founded by "Bicycle" Bob Wilson in the early 1980s, which conspicuously led to the beginning of the Yeti brand.