Head angles starting tightning up with the 2nd MTB built, literally. Joe Breeze has stated that Breezer #1 (his personal bike) had a head-tube angle of 67.5 degrees and for Breezers #2-10, he made it 68 degrees. He had really liked a bike with a 70 degree head angle but some other characteristics of the bike didn't suit him so he chose not to use it as the basis for the geometry of his bikes. His second series of bikes also had 68 degree head angles but by 1982 he was building bikes with 70 degree head tubes. I think he was still sticking with longer chainstays though.
For those really interested in this stuff, here's a fascinating article: http://www.peterverdone.com/?p=2399 On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 11:13:15 PM UTC-6, Mike Schiller wrote: > > oh gawd! alba/bosco whatever on an MTB... never in my life ( I hope)! > The tighter geometry on MTB's was happening in '87 for sure. I was racing > NORBA on a Fisher and it was not slack. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/37347002@N05/16209721716/ > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/37347002@N05/16209721716/> > The Bstones were a little steeper HA in the early 90's ( had an MB-2) but > not much. Most MTB's transitioned to the "NORBA" geo of 71/73 angles and > shorter chainstays in the late 80's including Bridgestone. > > ~mike > Carlsbad Ca > > > -- 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.
