Originally Posted by queerpunk
a guy i know just got a '83 stumpjumper.
wacky-looking bike. reinforced bars, lugged, funny angles all over the place, big ol' brake levers...
Old mountain bikes are fun just because nobody really knew what they were doing. They were all starting from California clunkers and trying to figure out how to best improve them. The stem V's out from the head tube and forms a triangle with the bars, right?