This is NOT a Walmart Mongoose! Starring a 1996 Mongoose Alta SX & Rock Shox Quadra 21R rebuild 

Man, that looks fresh off the showroom floor.. Pristine. Im a fan of the Schwinn Moab line they from back then. Very capable and quality bikes were coming out of Mongoose back then.

Such a weird little era. The previous generation Alta was chromoly and it was great, too. Full rigid, early STX group. They had a "Hilltopper" model too which was really nice. Reminds me of that last gasp of nice Schwinn bikes in the 90s; they get lumped in with the whole big-box stigma but they were very well-made, well-spec'd for the time bikes. Glad you saved one.

I'm obviously a bit biased as my username gives away, but Mongoose kept building good bikes up to this very day. They went through multiple periods, from Brunswick up to Pacific, but the upper end has always remained (I have a Valiant, 2 Canaans, a couple of Tyax's, a SX6.7, and even have an Alta frame). The bigger thing that seems to catch everyone's attention is that the Mongoose name got slapped onto a whole earth shattering amount of lower end models as well, but they kept on making good bikes each year. Not on the level of the old Tange framesets per say, but good bikes nonetheless.

Sweet find....amazing condition for its age 👌

Sweet ride!!

Interesting to wee how early suspension forks work

Nice. A couple of years ago i also found and recovered a 90's specialized hardtail, made it into a full rigid, stock. Those were simpler times and bikes lasted a lot longer with much less maintenance.

Awesome job and much less work than most of your builds. It's amazing what a difference a seemingly small detail like a new saddle makes to the overall appearance of the bike. Looks like all business now.

Fantastic job she looks amazing. Keep up the great work and stay safe out there.

Oh that clean cockpit! Nice bike.

What a great find!

Very clean bike

If the dork disc is good shape i leave it....dork disc squad unite😊

Interesting the way they went with the mid range bikes back in the day. Unfortunately by 98/99 2000 at the latest was the end of the well built mongooses. I ended up picking up an Amplifier recently and its been kicking my backside coming from working on bmx bikes 🤣. But seeing content like this has kept me going seeing that these bikes aren't as big of a challenge as I once thought they were.

I have the IBOC SX, it is Tange custom tubing and it feels great. It is kinda trashy, but I still like it and use it as a rigid steel grocery shopper.

Looked like it was mainly an indoor trainer. Everything really clean. Wonder why the shocks were trashed?

It looks like that bike is having more fun than you

👍👍👍

If you are interested in shimano new cues components,I just bought a 9 speed RD and Shifter from Rivendell bikes $10 Plus shipping.

What is a trainer wheel?

Халтурник !