Originally Posted by
cjefferds
Good stuff! This article on the Tomac Yeti inspired me to so a bit more research which led me to this excellent article chronicling some early examples of drop bar mtbs:
https://roadbikeaction.com/?p=39608 which includes an awesome photo of Tomac racing said Yeti.

Yes, his bikes are quite cool. It is really an interesting road not taken in mainstream bike design.
I set up my drop bar conversions in a style inspired by this, so with a road bike sort of position.