Keith King, Ride UK february 2001 : Since 1996, me, Jon Byers and Mike Corley all got together. Originally I decided I wanted to do a bike company, played around with some ideas in '95. I decided to go in with two other guys, it made it a lot easier financially to get started up. We all decided to focus on it together, we have all been long lime friends.
Jon Byers, Mike Corley, www.easternbikes.com, 2001 : We've been in love with wrecking our bikes since the 1970's. Witnessing just about every lame idea from fold-up pegs to handlebar/ stem combos. But by 1996, we'd had enough and started Eastern Bikes to build the best bikes money can buy - a pretty arrogant undertaking for 2 guys with no money. Regardless, we forged ahead with our products building a reputation for quality and uncompromising strength. Today, we are a stronger company and offer a full line of BMX products made from the highest quality materials and parts available. You simply cannot buy a better bike than an Eastern Bike.
Built with Love.
Bandit flatland frame.
Brutus bars.
Keith King, Ride UK february 2001 : It just seemed like everybody we dealt with took forever to get the frames ready. Just because it is made in the USA doesn't mean the frame is going to be perfect, like the workmanship and stuff, and so to meet deadlines and make orders we went to Taiwan. We found some quality manufacturers in Taiwan and that's who we went with.
Mike Laird left Eastern to ride for Nirve.
Keith King, Ride UK february 2001 : It bummed me out to lose Laird, but one thing that would be stronger than sponsorship with Mike Laird would be friendship, and the guys at Eastern are all good long time friends. Laird got a really good deal to go with Nirve, to hold him back which is what we would do it he was to remain on Eastern, I think it's not fair to him, we were happy to see Mike get a deal like he got. We encouraged him to go ahead and take the deal, run with it, you never know how long this wave is going to last, so we encouraged him to take advantage of it. We were sad to see him go, cause he did a lot for Eastern promoting bikes and stuff. Mike recommended a new rider to us, a really talented rider, Josh Harrington from Greenville, I think you'll see Josh up there with the big guys soon, Jay Rodriguez is another rider we brought on, a well known rider from NYC. We stilt have the other riders, I am pretty happy to still have Chris Shellkopf, so we'll see what we can do with these guys.
Eastern Seeker.
The new Eastern flatland frame designed by Leif Valin.
Dimensions : 19" pour le top tube, de 13" à 14.25" à l'arrière.
Duncan Gore 1998
Pascal Guerard 2003 - ....
Kennan Harkin 1997-1998
Keith King 1996
Mike Laird 1997 - 2000
Steve Nowak 1997 - ....
Leigh Ramsdell november 2000 - ....
Paul Russel
Leif Valin september 2001 - .... Leif said he will be involved in designing and testing products.
