Originally Posted by
50voltphantom
God that frame is cool. I wonder what their thinking was putting two cage mounts on the downtube instead of the seat tube?
I'm guessing they were thinking shouldering the bike would be easier. A fair amount of people were into shouldering MTBs back then. You could probably shoulder OK with a low cage on the seattube, but then you run into front derailleur clamp problems.
I wish the guys who designed my olde Yokota had thought of shouldering. The put cable stops under the top tube right in there where they'd do the most harm to your shoulder. Living on the second floor and that being my errand bike, I found that out right away.