Dang, all this vintage MTB hate has got me riled up!
Sure, if you want to go for easy big air or crazy Redbull-inspired technical downhills, you're gonna want a new bike, no doubt. But to say that a vintage Stumpy isn't worth anything more than a beater...
Pros who raced on these bikes back in the day have gone on record as saying they wouldn't go back to old tech, but the fact remains that these bikes were raced back in the day, and what was rad then is still rad now.
I'm real new to riding in the woods, but I love it, and I love riding on my old Stumpy. It feels both nimble and bomb-proof. I'm confident that the front-squish '95 Stumpy I'm building up will be just as gnarly. And by the time I'm done with it, I'd like to think I'll appreciate the suspension "upgrade" because I've built skills as a rider on a full-rigid to take advantage of it.
Haters gonna hate, I guess. More vintage MTBs for the rest of us!
