And +1 on what Jim said. The reason I'm on this forum is my Bridgestone MB (# doesn't matter) from 1991 and how much it made me love riding and how great it still rides. It's still the best riding 26 inch wheel bike I know. (My Rivs are all 700C.)
And the steepest hill I can climb can only be done on that Bridgestone. I can't do it on any of my Rivs or my Niner. -Jim W. Sent from my iPhone On 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.
