When great people get together, they do great things. That’s what’s happening at Shredline. The new company is a supergroup of folks from the mountain-bike (and broader cycling) world who are hell-bent on making something awesome. Oh, and they have a pretty convincing bike to help convey the new company. Let us introduce you to Shredline Bicycle Co.
The Shredline brand is the long-simmering return of David Meredith’s old One Ghost Industries vision. The new brand comes with a fresh team and a revived suspension concept. Plus, a very clear sense that the bike world could use a few more weirdos making cool stuff in garages again, and we agree.
What is Shredline?
At its core, Shredline is the next chapter of a story that never really got its ending.
Long before Shredline, there was One Ghost Industries, Meredith’s boutique bike brand that ran from 2006 to 2014. The brand quietly built a loyal following around its distinctive design and an original floating-suspension concept.
When the recession finally caught up with the business, One Ghost got shelved, but not forgotten. Meredith kept sketching, revising kinematics, and kicking around ideas for what the brand could have become if it had another shot.
That shot is now called Shredline.
The new company brings Meredith together with Mo Ory, Kenni DeNile, and Ryan Burney. The crew has backgrounds spanning wheels, BMX, industrial design, motorsport engineering, marketing, and music. It’s a wild crew, and that mix shows up everywhere in the style. Shredline isn’t trying to come off as slick or corporate. It’s trying to feel human, obsessive, and a little bit dangerous in the way only a small bike brand can.
We met up with the crew at the Sea Otter Classic, and they were decked out in the finest kit to match their newest offering to the world. Launching Shredline as a vibe and concept.
Old Ghost Evolved
The brand’s mechanical center is Ghost Link. Now, a revised version of Meredith’s old MotoGP floating-suspension layout from the One Ghost days.
The Ghost Link is a short-link floating four-bar that uses the floating rear shock as the fourth bar. The system is designed to deliver a smooth, progressive leverage curve while keeping the suspension active under braking. This design reduces system stiction. It spreads impact forces more evenly through the frame rather than hammering on a single obvious point.
The riding version is simpler: Ghost Link is supposed to keep the bike planted, supportive, and calm when things get rough, while cutting down some of the usual ugly stuff that can creep into high-pivot-ish, long-travel layouts.
According to the company’s kinematic notes, the Eden platform has a progressive leverage rate of 21 to 26 percent. The anti-squat rises through the travel to keep the bike from wallowing under power, and the anti-rise drops through the stroke to help keep the rear end active under braking. The really interesting number, though, is pedal kickback, no special hubset or wheel needed.
Shredline says the idler-equipped layout reduces kickback from around 25 degrees in the original non-idler version to roughly 3-5 degrees at full bottom-out, depending on travel configuration.
One platform | Multiple Travel Options
The other notable part of the Ghost Link story is adjustability.
Shredline says the Eden platform is designed to support multiple travel configurations while keeping the same basic suspension character intact. In the 250mm eye-to-eye shock setup, rear travel ranges from 182mm to 199mm. In the 230mm eye-to-eye setup, using a 20mm yoke, travel ranges from 158mm to 176mm.
That means Shredline is not just chasing one frame, one travel number, one fixed personality. The idea is that riders can tune the platform for different builds and intentions without sacrificing the core ride feel each time they adjust the travel target.
Garage Bonded – USA assembled – Proudly Small
Shredline is also leaning hard into how the bikes will be made. This is not another “designed in one place, inspired by another, assembled somewhere else entirely” story.
The plan is for full-suspension frames to use CNC-machined lugs from Minnesota and carbon tubes from Eastern Europe. Finally, everything is hand-bonded in garages in Vermont, Austin, and Tacoma. That is either wonderfully romantic, slightly insane, or probably both.
This is a small brand on purpose. No giant production flex. No fake-scale startup energy. Just a group of people building bikes the way they want to build them, using the tools and resources they have now. They are aiming toward a future that includes more in-house production and a stronger sustainability loop.
Shredline says that the long-term goal is full-circle responsibility, building products only after asking whether the world actually needs them.
More Than Just Bikes
There’s a strong thread of music running through everything here. This crew clearly sees bikes and music as part of the same language, rhythm, movement, energy, and culture. That whole side of the brand feels more lived-in than marketed, which is probably why it works.
Then there’s the dog side of it. Shredline says every bike or product will be named after one of the crew’s dogs. The company’s nonprofit arm, the Ghost Dog Foundation, is being established to support injured trail and working dogs and partner with rescues. To help dogs in need. A percentage of each sale is supposed to go toward that work.
It’s personal, a little off-center, and exactly the kind of detail that keeps a small brand from feeling generic.
So what’s actually launching? For now, Shredline is launching the brand, the philosophy, and the platform, more than a full showroom floor of bikes.
The company says four models are already in development, all built around the revived Ghost Link system. Each is designed to work with modern geometry, big wheels, adjustable travel, Pinion gearboxes, and e-bike motors. The Eden platform is the clearest early look at the brand’s full-suspension direction and looks great.
