Speaking of rebooted classic brands...Cook Bros. Racing

[retrofit]

The thread on American Classic reminded me that the Cook Bros. Racing brand was supposed to be revitalized by American BMX Company after purchasing rights to the name last winter.

“We are very excited about acquiring the rights to the Cook Bros. Racing brand. We already have a full line of Neo Retro and retro-mod components in development. We’ll offer handlebars, stems, seatclamps and other parts suitable for the retro crowd or even BMX racers looking for something unique for their modern race bikes,” said Marc Côté, the owner of Montreal-based ABC.

Link to new website: Cook Bros. Racing Most products are still in the "Coming Soon" category.

[HenryA]

I had some Cook Brothers cranks on a Cannondale MTB. They were pretty cool looking. The frame pretty well sucked.

[brewsmith]

Boone titanium is also back in the saddle

[retrofit]

Originally Posted by HenryA

I had some Cook Brothers cranks on a Cannondale MTB. They were pretty cool looking. The frame pretty well sucked.

Still have a Cook Bros. stem on my Klein. Looks nothing like the bling on the new website.

[Mikej]

Sorry, Cooks was the worst mtb crankst I ever owned.

[HenryA]

Originally Posted by Mikej

Sorry, Cooks was the worst mtb crankst I ever owned.

Mine would not stay tight on the spindle.

But they looked cool.

[Davist]

Classic BMX market has gone crazy $$ wise since the pandemic.. This is probably a sign of that I'm guessing. Cook Bros. made great frames, hubs, basically invented the aheadset, and then got into MTB. Current parentage is Race, Inc, another old school BMX brand.

[pdonk]

I have a cook bros ti bb in my old brodie. The cups are seized in really tight, fortunately, the bearings are replaceable without removing the cups, which is also the issue with it there is minimal sealing from the elements.

Agree about the crank, they wallowed out way to easily if not treated with kid gloves and care. They were also really wide.

[zap]

Originally Posted by brewsmith

Boone titanium is also back in the saddle

Cool.

Way back I had a set of Boone ti cogs for my Mavic hubset.

[charliedid]

I had some Cooks BMX and MTB cranks that thankfully never cracked. But who remembers the story? Didn't they split and two companies formed back in the day allowing both to produce similar/same products?

[54ny77]

oh heck yeah.

local legends.

thanks for the heads up.

[klasse]

Originally Posted by brewsmith

Boone titanium is also back in the saddle

my buddy had a Boone Ti cassette. I had the titanium helix bottom bracket. It was shaped like a drill bit. Great, glad to hear they are back.