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bikemig

07-05-12 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Ira B (Post 14441494)

My winter commuter is an 80's Shogun set up with bar extensions, street tires and fenders and I love that beast. I rolled right over chunks of debris on the roadside that would have probably trashed a wheel and earned me a face plant on my road bike.

Yeah, they are just hardy beasts. I love seeing junk on the road that I just roll over on my mtb that I would have to avoid on a road bike.

bikemig

07-05-12 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Bent Bill (Post 14440190)

Old new MTB commuter Giant Yukon bought new in about 1993
rebuilt to this config in June this year
best money I have spent so far on a bike
I call it a old mans fat tire road bike :D

That's a heck of a bike.

alan s

07-05-12 10:10 AM

My suspension fork was polluting my MTB commuter for years, and is now polluting a landfill somewhere. Unfortunately, I no longer have a "vintage" MTB conversion, as I first replaced all the components, and then replaced the frame and fork with a 2011 Surly Troll frameset.

bikemig

07-05-12 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by alan s (Post 14442616)

Cool, I think a new rigid fat tire frameset would fit nicely into this thread. Vintage MTBs can be cheap but Surlys are cool. I have a 1x1 frame that I need to build up one of these days.

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