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Old 05-24-20, 09:33 AM
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Salamandrine 
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Mongoose nickel motomag. Nobody talks about it, but that's where sloping top tubes started. For that matter that's where the concept of 'wheelsets' started.

Sloping top tubes didn't even really migrate to mountain bikes until about 1990. Kona was an early proponent. As far as sloping top tube in vintage road bikes, there simply weren't any.
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