Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
A (good) 80's vintage MTB with light wheels and narrow slicks will weight 25 pounds, but it will cost you $200 - or less. Our local bike Co-op is stuffed with them.
The perk to vintage MTBs is that they're rigid frames made versatile by huge clearances. If you're going to run
narrow slicks, I don't understand why you wouldn't get a bike that was designed from the ground up to be a ~road bike, such as a CX bike. A vintage MTB with narrow slicks will just be heavier and handle a bit strange, and if we're going to use drop bars then it'll also require a lot of rework.
I've got a vintage MTB drop-bar conversion gravel bike of sorts, but I'm running 53mm tires with full-length fenders.