Jim was also involved in the Force 1 frame development. Jim Redcay was the builder (Tom Kellogg was working on Road Bikes). In early 1982 Ross Signature (hand made bike department) was making custom Mountain bikes. Ross introduced their first production MTB, the Force 1, during the first Interbike Show in October 1982 the bikes name was later changed to the Mt. Ross had models that directly competed with the Schwinn Side Winder called the Ross Diamond Cruiser. In 1983, Randy Ross created the first mountain bike race team, the Ross Indians. In 1982, Ross Bicycles was the first ever bicycle manufacturer to mass produce the mountain bike. on May 21, 1982, and in 1973 manufacturing was moved to a new, purpose-built plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company moved to Beach 79th Street in Rockaway Beach, Queens (now Far Rockaway) some time around 1960, the company was renamed Ross Bicycles Inc. Ross' first factory was on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, New York, near the Schaefer Brewery and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
