Originally Posted by Scooper
I took it the OP meant a bike that has a frame with touring geometry (relaxed head tube and seat tube angles, relatively long chainstays/wheelbase, and dropout eyelets for mounting fenders) that could be fitted with panniers. I guess it would also help if the builder had advertised it as a tourer.
Good answer! Here's a quote from the '85 Schwinn All Terrain catalog: "Bicycling! Magazine's "Good Buy" pick in 1984, the High Sierra returns in '85 an even better buy for all terrain
touring cyclists." Works for me!
Now about you credit card tourers without racks and panniers... welcome too! It's all good!