Nice article. So basically we are just going back to the All-Terrain Bikes that came out of Marin County in the late 70's and early 80's. I've done a bit of reading about the history of the MTB (as well as watching Klunkerz) and those guys (and a couple of girls) were really just doing exactly what Guitar Ted is talking about........developing bikes that could be ridden almost anywhere. The whole downhill/extreme terrain thing came about when the racers took over. I know that Repack was all about racing and was a huge influence but it seems those guys were doing a lot of what would now be called expedition biking.
I've evolved to prefer just that type of bike and no longer have any interest in riding anything less than 55mm tires. When I picked up a 1984 MTB last year, I did some research on bikes from that era and in 1985 Bicycling put out a book and they were still referring to them as ATB's, which is actually much more appropriate than "mountain bike". On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 11:21:18 AM UTC-6, Noah Deuce wrote: > > Hyperbole, sure, but the drum GP has been beating for decades (better tire > clearance, too much emphasis on racing, etc.) has finally turned into a > product "category" that may save the industry from itself. > > Just see the latest by Guitar Ted: > http://www.gravelgrindernews.com/less-about-the-rock-and-more-about-the-roll/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
