Rocky Mountain Bicycles had its beginnings in the basement of a Vancouver bike store called West Point Cycles.

[1] It was in 1978 when two men began modifying Nishiki road bikes by adding wider tires, straight handlebars and internal five-speed gears.

The Vancouver trademark sloping top tube was initiated in the same year when Paul Brodie built the first Rocky Mountain “Avalanche” frame for Jacob Heilbron.

Pippin Osborne was frame designer and Dan Gerhard was the national sales manager of Rocky Mountain during these early years.

[12] Rocky Mountain sponsors several professional freeride athletes including Wade Simmons, Thomas Vanderham, Hayden Zablotny and Vaea Verbeeck.