Originally Posted by
pastorbobnlnh
My riding buddy from church has an '86 in that color. He's the original owner and we keep it in tip-top shape. We ride our High Sierra's mostly on our local packed gravel Rail Trail, which is the longest continuous one in NH. This is a picture of us at the beginning of an end to end ride (60+ miles) one October. My yellow one is an '88. "B138" on the post tells us that Boston's North Station is 138 miles to the south.
nice. i still have my high sierra and mesa runner from about 1985. great for the kinda trails you are using, but i found it difficult on the wilder mtb trails as shifting wasn't too fast. perhaps get better shifters than the oem if i wanted to accomplish that kinda riding. my bikes i generally keep stock unless they break and generally do not.
enjoying this thread, the high sierra helped get me back into riding after the ten speed boom of the seventies.