ESTABLISHED 2010 IN MATLOCK, DERBYSHIRE
STANTON BIKES
Stanton came aboutwhen avid rider Dan Stanton couldn’t quite find what he was looking for in a bike. He explains: “I was passionate about riding, ever since I was a boy. All I did in any spare time I had was mess about on bikes. It was street trials, dirt jumps and playing around in the woods, and, as I got older, I started going to trail centres. I was a hardtail fan, and there were a few bikes that were OK, but nothing that really enabled what I wanted to do on a bike. So, I set about designing one.”
His first creation, the Slackline, hit the mark with our testers – who said it offered “a magical combo of snappy steel acceleration and a hardtail’s lightweight manoeuvrability” – and we weren’t the only ones who liked it. “The first frame I ordered got a spot in the [the gravity-riding mag’s annual round-up of top products] and I held that for four years,” Dan recalls. “As far as I’m aware, I developed the first proper
