This is precisely why I decided to refurbish my MB-1 a la Resurrectio <http://reno-rambler.blogspot.com/2014/07/introducing-reno-rambler-resurrectio.html> style. That bike is just too nice to not invest a little in keeping it on the road/dirt. It's not very easy to find a high quality early 90s rigid lugged steel mtn bike frame. I'm curious if anybody,( a bike magazine), wasn't so invested in selling advertising to actually write an article that really broke down the advancements in ideas that brought us the mountain bike as we know it today. I'm not thinking who "invented it" so much as those incremental advancements in the evolution.
Cheers, Addison Wilhite, M.A. Academy of Arts, Careers and Technology <http://www.washoeschools.net/aact> *“Blazing the Trail to College and Career Success”* Educator: Professional Portfolio <http://addisonwilhite.blogspot.com/> Blogger: Reno Rambler <http://reno-rambler.blogspot.com/> Bicycle Advocate: Regional Transportation Commission, Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee <http://www.rtcwashoe.com/public-transportation-22-124.html> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Cyclofiend Jim <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 on Joe B's post. Not sure I'd call it "road ish"... but, my '83 > Fisher Montare had a looooong wheelbase and laid back angles - straight > from the early Breeze/Ritchey designs. Which of course were based on the > Schwinn Excelsior and the practice of getting reasonably sideways on steep, > wide fire roads. If you find pre-GP Bridgestones, you'll find similar > angles and measures. GP's designs when he went to work on the MB series > tightened up the angles a bit and arguably nudged the design focus away > from Klunkers. Others were working certainly working the same issues - > that long slack bikes handled kind of - well, "cruisery". But, yeah... I > think GP got it right first. > > Of course, Chris Chance brought an east coast focus to his designs, Scott > Nicol up at Ibis went at it a different way, finding that compact frames > could give the handling he sought. Ritchey P series bikes were beautiful > handling frames. Mountain Goats and others - mmmm... some fine bikes to be > had in the days of rigid forks. The intro of the Judy from Rock Shox > seemed to be the point at which mtb designs pivoted away from the high end > models being a rigid design. > > But I will say that if my '90 MB1 fails, I'm going to want something very, > very similar to it. I tend to forget how well it handles. Then, when I'm > zipping around the local trails, there's a point where I'm just grinning > and shaking my head. Yeah. That bike just sings. > > - Jim / cyclofiend.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
