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This came up on the local classifieds for 300 dollars(which is not worth it). So glad we finally figured out what makes for a good a MTB and got away from road angles and reach numbers.
Looks like a great durable xc bike for a 6'8", 300lb clydesdaleThis came up on the local classifieds for 300 dollars(which is not worth it). So glad we finally figured out what makes for a good a MTB and got away from road angles and reach numbers.
Don't laugh..it's amazing what people ask for utter crap around here because they label it retro or vintage..Retro.
Looks like a great durable xc bike for a 6'8", 300lb clydesdale
Trek had a short lived 6-9 series too.If I recall correctly, this bike had a 24" rear wheel and a 26" front wheel......so now we have bikes with 29" front and 27.5" rear wheels which could conceivably be set up with 27.5 front and 26 rear! Every thing old is (kinda)new again.
Looks like a great durable xc bike for a 6'8", 300lb clydesdale
Don't laugh..it's amazing what people ask for utter crap around here because they label it retro or vintage..
I'm curious. As someone who nearly bought an FSR back in about 96ish what is so terrible about it ( bought a super V instead and had a lot of fun)?
There is nothing wrong with this "particular" bike this post is more a jab at the Geometery which is crap. Yes people rode, hell some people rode it pretty fast, and yes people had fun on these old bike, but the geometery was crap, just noone knew is back then.
There are hardtails that will go downhill better than an old DH bike like this bike simply due to geometery. The bike I posted BTW in the Original post was a size M.
I own the godfather of modern geometery a preproduction 2012 Kona Honzo size M, this bike literally changed the bike industry. The Honzo has a slacker Head angle, much steeper seat tube, shorter seat tube(more room to move around), longer Top tube, like much longer, lower BB, almost all modern bikes the past couple years follow this trend of long,low and slack.
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To put it in perspective a modern enduro bike will absolutely be faster than 2000s era DH bike downhill, and can easily be pedaled back up the hill.
Umm they have the “big honzo” which can take 27.5 x 3.0 or 29 by 2.6. They also have the wozo which takes 4.8s.......