Originally Posted by
squirtdad
I grew up in montana and you rode in town paved (except alleys), On Hiway 2 (still popular with bike tourers) or on gravel. So all our bikes were gravel bikes..... single speed schwinn clones, stingrays, english racer and 10 speeds... I would say bike tires were a bit bigger 1 1/2 1 3/8 1 1/4
I grew up in small town/rural Kansas... except for Streets A, B, Main, C, & D going North/South, and Streets First, Second, & Third going East/West, every other road was the locally mined, gray/white crushed limestone. So, that's what I road, mostly, on my knockoff Stingray, from the local Western Auto store. We didn't know no better.