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12-18-10 | 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Velognome

Or it's contemporary usage is to describe the earlier era Track Bikes without confusion. I would venture, that if you did a word/picture match; Path Racer would be associated with slack frames and larger tires while Track with tighter frames and thinner tires. This is the C&V forum afterall, nothing dies here, only cleaned up, repaired and put to use....now where did I leave that spanner?

Except that it's contemporary usage is usually not to describe earlier track bikes, but instead to describe hybrid models, usually from the 1930's to 1950's, that are more properly dubbed "road/track" or road/path." That's the reason for the association of "path racer" with slack frames and larger tires.

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