Originally Posted by
jtgotsjets
You are correct in that, back when they were called "path racers" the geometry was slacker than now, when we call them track bikes. However, that's not a design feature inherent to path racers or track bikes, just a difference between how bikes are make now versus then.
I doubt that the term "Path Racer" was ever in wide usage. More likely, I believe that "path bike" or "path frame" or "path model" would have been used when "track bike" or "track frame" or "track model" wasn't the preferred term.