To my knowledge, a vintage MTB from the late '80s would differ from the LHT in terms of having a higher bottom bracket and most likely fairly slack seat and head tubes. Depending on the frame's geometry, it may ride well on the road and it may not. There have been differing reports in both directions.
Many of those older MTBs had fender/rack mount points and clearance for wide tires, so similar to the LHT in that sense. Moving into the 90's, MTB geo started to change towards the compact mountain angles (including front suspension-corrected geo) as opposed to the more touring type of thing that characterized the early Stumps and the like. KJ On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 10:44:05 AM UTC-5, Chris Lampe 2 wrote: > > Anyone have any thoughts on positives or negatives associated with > choosing a 26" LHT versus a 90's MTB, like a Stumpjumper or Rockhopper? > > I'm familiar with the geometry differences between the two and I will be > using modern components (except for stem if I go vintage) so I'm interested > in things like ride quality, the impact of the tubing used in each, etc.... > > This will be an all-rounder bike that is primarily ridden on pavement with > the option to ride on packed dirt, gravel and even double track. I have no > interest in single-track or "mountain biking" as it currently exists. > > Riv content is that my bike project is directly inspired by the 56cm > Atlantis but I don't have the finances to go that route. I also know there > is a vast amount of experience with this type of bike here. > -- 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.
