Originally Posted by
bmike
ha, i was taking my sears banana seat bike off 'sweet jumps' in the 80s.
didn't discover long rides until high school. starting in like 90,91,92.
so that means you are 'old skool'?
My current mountain bike
slack angles so it handles like a schoolbus.
I see a retro tour on this next spring, going rackless and retracing some of my early off-road sagas. In the 80's i toured on a nearly identical bike with two rear panniers and a backpack. (imagine that!)
I've also got a cheap monster cross frame en route to build up a bastard drop bar 29er - where i'm at now is excessively sandy, and 700x3_ touring tires just don't cut it in the dirt around here.