Well, already before I was young and attractive, as a schoolboy in Sweden in the fifties, we went out in the woods riding trails on standard bikes with 584/42mm and 584/38mm tires. But we didn´t give it a name. Just riding. When normal people got the money to acquire bicycles around 1920 they did the same, for transportation. On 584/42 and 584/38mm tires! They didn´t call it anything special. Just riding. Some decades ago I even found a broken down bike from the 1890´s with solid tires beside a trail. He must have been out there, just riding.
Olof Stroh Uppsala Sweden who this morning rode along the river on Old C (Centurion Super Tour from 1982) with Grand Bois Cypres tires. From: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com [mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Moore Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 7:11 PM To: rbw-owners-bunch Subject: Re: [RBW] Klunking! Back when I was young and attractive, circa 1990, I briefly dated an even younger and more attractive woman near Santa Fe who had an early mountain bike -- 6 speed, I recall. I was too poor to own one, having just spend all my disposable income on a '89 Falcon (nice bike!), so I bought a Schwinn 3 speed at Goodwill for $15 and had a lbs install a 36 t ring, giving 70", 52", and 39" gears, and myself installed scavenged straight bars. It had 26 X 1 3.8 tires **that never flatted**. I recall riding a hilly jeep trail just south of SF, with multiple stream crossings where you could see the water run into and out of bb and rear hub. Didn't affect the performance at all. On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:11 AM, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: All of the California guys acknowledge that what they were doing wasn't anything new. The activity just reached a critical mass in Marin and the modern sport of mountain biking has a direct lineage to what they were doing in the 1970's. One of their friends, John Finley Scott, had built a fully functioning MTB using a Schwinn road bike frame and fat tires 20 years before the Marin guys started their experiments. He called it a "Woodsy Bike". For me, an old-fashioned, rigid, heavy duty bike with 26" wheels (or now, maybe 650B) with fat tires and MTB handlebars is the very essence of a bicycle. I do prefer Norba geometry over Repack geometry, although my one bike with Repack geometry is a blast to ride! On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 4:58:43 AM UTC-5, ascpgh wrote: >From an interview of Matt Marcus (early eastern MTBer) by Blue Ridge Outdoors >on some predecessors to what we know as klunkers: MM: Back when I owned the bike shop in the 90s, I came across this story on this sheet of paper about how back in the 1920s during Prohibition moonshiners made these bicycles with gearing that they used to run the moonshine over the mountains from Dryfork, W.V., in Randolph County. That’s the story and if I ever find it again I’ll send it to you. I don’t even know where it came from. But it wasn’t one group. Hundreds of people all over the world discovered mountain biking. It was just the guys out in California that finally took it to production. They’re the ones who pulled it off. It seems like there are more bike shops in California and Florida than anywhere else in the U.S. and its because of the climate and terrain. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 5:25:08 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: That is an interesting video, and interesting hair. I wish they'd show a smoking coaster hub, though. Notice too the no retention pedals and "ride in what you're wearing" clothing. I was interested to hear whatzizname say that the sport had really started 10 or so years earlier; what, mid to late '60s? Nil novum, etc. Can anyone identify the year or at least specify the period? Late '70s? On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Liesl <li...@smm.org> wrote: Hey, regarding the new riv-posted video... 1) dig pre-famous gary fischer! 2) dig hair! 3) dig the pre-boscos 4) dig the diagatube pre-hunq 5) does anyone see Grant hiding somewhere in there?????? -- 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. 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