Spooky Bikes

**SPOOKYChris** · 09-13-2018

Spooky is making big moves, transitioning to new ownership with a great crew in AZ. FTW is fully on board and there’s a lot of exciting stuff in the works.

**GonaSovereign** · 12-31-2018

I can't keep track of who owns the company, but I know FTW built this one in VT and it serves me well.

Spooky

**Blue Jays** · 12-31-2018

Originally Posted by GonaSovereign

”...I can't keep track of who owns the company, but I know FTW built this one in VT and it serves me well...”

That makes two of us! LOL. Great racebikes, for sure.

**benson** · 06-06-2022

Originally Posted by suspectdevice

Pretty neat pictures post-ride pre-strip for painting. I love Lumberjacks

Mickey,is that old webpage for the Lumberjack still out there somewhere?
The one that appealed to my Eurotrash lifestyle

**suspectdevice** · 06-06-2022

Originally Posted by benson

Mickey,is that old webpage for the Lumberjack still out there somewhere?
The one that appealed to my Eurotrash lifestyle

The internet wayback machine might find something for you- but there was nothing too special about those bikes. The one you pictured is Max with an 853-legged Igle fork, and max clearences for Paul Racer standard mount brakes.

Breadwinner, Hampsten, Item 4(aka Bishop X Vicious) and many other folks still build pretty similar bikes. They were always custom, but the geometry on the one you posted is really, really similar to what Ritte shipped on their stock size L Satyr frames(The newest Satyr fits giant tires, but the steering geometry is still super similar, albeit with a lower BB height(and other Tom Kellog geometry magic that maybe I will understand after another 20 years of bike design)) since nobody expects anyone to have to race any criteriums on those bikes... The owner of the Lumberjack above won the Green Mountain Stage race in Cat 3 with a swap to deep tubies. I'm racing my V1 Satyr in a crit tomorrow night though... Should be fun. Until it isn't.

I think the biggest thing that has changed in the bike industry since I was designing Lumberjacks is nominal tire diameter- I drew most of those bikes around 32c tires as "big" with clearance for CX tires and mud.
The newest crop of Ritte disc "any-road" bikes are nominally 40c native, adding both cush and bb drop for stability- but going into the low 70's for bb drop does mean that the bikes just don't want to handle as well "smaller" more road race friendly tires.