| 1987 |
BMX Action, october 1987: A month or so ago, Mor Distributing president, Todd Huffman, hinted around that he and Bob Morales had been playing with an idea of starting a new companyAuburn Bicycles. (Why Auburn? Don't ask,..) So... when one of our semi-reliable sources phoned in to report that BMX'er at large, Rod Beckering, was seen at Mor riding a very unusual bike, we were in the Bat-Van and on our way before we even had a chance to hang up the phone. We live for dangerous missions such as this. Slyness is a job requirement. Running back and forth between trees, feeling like those guys in Road and Track who snoop behind the bushes at the Ford, G.M., and Chevy testing grounds, adorned in trench coats and Groucho Marx shades, we snuck up to the rear garage door of the Mor Distributing building. Slowly creeping up behind the dumpster plastered with Scootster stickers, we positioned ourselves between two empty bike boxes and yanked out the binoc's A quick scope of the place told us something was up. The smell of a new bike was in the air... After a very strenuous two hour wait, Mor Distributing's seven-foot-tall shipping giant stuck his head out of their garage and looked both ways for spies like us. All was clear, he thought. The aborigine wheeled the unpainted beauty outside and leaned it against a chain link fence while he strolled towards the Mor van with keys dangling in hand... This was it. The brand new, revolutionary proto-type 20 inch race bike from Mor Distributing- the Auburn. With our faithful Nikon and a super long 750 mm telescopic zoom lens, we quickly snapped a couple of shots before the Larry Bird look-alike loaded it into the van to head for the top-secret test grounds and conduct further structural analysis. You'll be hearing more about this two-piece bike as soon as Mor tells us. All we know now is what you see in these here photos. From the looks of it, we think an aluminum rear-end, like a motorcycle swingarm, would be D-HOT! |
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