There are iconic bikes. There are rare bikes. And then there are bikes that define an entire Zeitgeist.
The Brooklyn Machine Works Racelink appeared during a truly mad phase for mountain bikes. It was an era of big everything: big bikes, big hucks, and even bigger crashes. An era when the bikes where simply set up to protect their fragile, meaty, “no regerts'’ cargo from the rapidly approaching ground.
The Racelink stood out because it was Brooklyn Machine Works' tilt at a machine built for speed. It was a race bike, and ahead of its time in more ways than one.
My earliest memories of Brooklyn Machine Works are hazy magazine-recollections of riders sending features in New York's Central Park. That 341ha slice of paradise in urban Manhattan was where Brooklyn Machine Works ultimately had its genesis when Joe Avedisian, out for a ride one day, met champion trials
