Originally Posted by
cyccommute
I don’t agree. The sport of mountain biking was built on vintage MTBs. They were more than touring bikes. They weren’t the marvels of technology we have today but many people pioneered those marvels on old rigid mountain bikes. And, by the time the Homegrowns had come along, they were “real” mountain bikes with race geometries and pedigrees. My Dean and Moots are from 1999 and 1998 respectively. My Moots is what I use for bikepacking...not touring which is a different endeavor altogether.
2020-01-26 16:51:13 by
Stuart Black, on Flickr
I’ve also done “bikepacking” before it was a thing on a vintage MTB. Here that bike is in 1986 before suspension was even glimmer in some engineer’s eye.
Rollins Pass, 8/10/85 by
Stuart Black, on Flickr
The Moots does it better
Not from the bikes in this thread. The bikes pictured may never have been used a mountain bikes but every one of them is capable of mountain bikery.
Awesome pictures. I need to get out to the mountains and do some of that.
And regarding slicks, let's agree to disagree!
I think fat slick tires can be used on 95% of the surfaces that people will ride on and you don't need to fight the rolling resistance of knobs. Come over to the dark side and try out some supple 26" slicks. You know you wanna.
