Originally Posted by Dave Moulton
The dropped bars were raised a little higher than for the road, and you notice my ass is hanging way off the back of the saddle.
On the subject of Art an Design.
The main beauty of my bikes was in the way they rode. It always irked me a little when people kept them as pure art objects just to look at. They were built to be ridden.
Ha, thats you...you're nuts. Speaking of nuts. In 1977 I bailed off a 6 foot ramp on my friends custom jump mustang,(bad copy of mine) I flattened my rear wheel 'cause I overshot the land ramp.
His front wheel came off @ the top of the ramp and jammed in the fork, I was headslammed into the pavement (no helmet). I still grow no hair where the rocks indented my skull.
This was perhaps 2 years before a real jump (moto-bmx) bike came out. We had to adapt small curve frame bikes 'cause the others broke. Later we took those stupid plastic gastanks off the first motos.
Most of them broke too. Evil Kanevil wasn't a good choice as a sports icon for me.
But they eventually got the bikes that were needed. BMX.
And IMO, bmx developement has little to do with mtbs. Same timeline, but Joe Breeze did Scwinn curve tube bikes, Ritchey did a frame geom based on road bikes.
Wish I had kept biking, my skate career was ended by Osgood Schlatters disease.
Didn't get on a bike again 'till 1987.