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Old 10-10-12 | 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by KonAaron Snake
I just checked - they're 20x1.75. I agree with your friend; it's a great short range, around town bike. Getting over 10 miles on it is less fun. The lack of hand positions starts to bug me.
Not impossible, though. I rode the '75 (or was it '76?) Tour of the Scioto River Valley on mine. Wearing a suit, bow tie, bowler, and smoking a pipe much of the way.
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