Off-road toad mountain bike

In 1984, Rod Kirkham, the owner of Toad Cycles and Mountain and Beach Bicycles, in Vancouver, crafted a 26" BMX cruiser using aluminum tubing he purchased from Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. Kirkham named his cruiser the Road Toad. In late 1988, the Off-Road Toad debuted. It was a line of mountain bikes designed and produced by Kirkham, and manufactured at Rocky Mountain Bicycles in Richmond, B.C. Derek Bailey, who was already a well-known and respected frame builder, fillet brazed roughly 30 Off-Road Toads. Subsequent batches of Toads, about 50, were TIG welded by Chris Dekerf . . .
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