Thread: Sloping Top Tube Vintage Road Bikes
View Single Post
Old 05-24-20, 02:57 PM
  #12  
clubman 
Phyllo-buster
 
clubman's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Nova Scotia
Posts: 8,847

Bikes: roadsters, club bikes, fixed and classic

Mentioned: 133 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2298 Post(s)
Liked 2,055 Times in 1,255 Posts
Originally Posted by Salamandrine
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.
One of the early adopters was Rocky Mtn with their Blizzard in 87. A grail bike for me.
clubman is offline  
Reply