Retro mountain bikes

Stunning! Did you get it??

That’s steep! I have purchased an entry level Pinarello Spring frameset, will post pictures once it arrives and start building it...
Actually, does anybody have a decent 90’s mtb groupset going spare?

Rock Lobster?

If anyone is after some frame and forks, Bikeworks in Bethnal Green have some reasonable frames going cheap: Cannondale, Stumpjumper M2 (£15), GT etc.

Stumpy M2 for £15 sounds very reasonable.

I just bought this but suspect it may end up too big for my monstour build. Not got it yet but anyone interested if it doesn’t fit me? Eyelets for days. Sorry, no idea how to imbed an eBay pic
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122732584313

Should be sold to somebody with longer legs ... like me.

Bridgestones are fantastic, I bloody love mine.

That Bridgestone...
Jericho Beach, North Van on the right and West Van on the left. I grew up just a few blocks from there.

I know very little about competitive cycling, but my guess re: why the cleland geo didn't catch on is that it isn't for racing, or bombing down things as it's raison dêtre, rather a bike for doing a sort of rambling kind of riding, completely off-trail rather than following off-road paths snd tracks. The Geos of MTBs and I think to some extent clunkers, is about having slack seat /headtubes for no trail, longish stems and weight of upper body forward, legs' weight back. Rather like road bikes. As you can see from Clelands etc you're basically standing up, not really possible to stand on tbe pedals with bum off saddle, little or no stem reach, and seat tube almost vertical so the pedal thrust is almost totally downward, not forward, like walking up stairs.

My other obsession, Pedersens, seem quite similar in some ways.

That guy needs a larger bike...

Here's a nice little video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1bYUSRhPRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbWuIHESe5M

Curious things. kinda like a Tank.

There's some bits here on the modern incarnation . Slightly melancholy story if you read it all the way through.

It's basically the perfect bike for Epping Forest if you don't know where the trails are :)

Those videos are like every Badgers ride, ever.

Except that dude is still on his bike, not rolling around in the slop

Ah yes. Far more of this...

Yeah those videos are kinda funny.

I reckon trying some of that sort of noodling about in a wilderness with a little camping gear would be fun!

...it isn't for racing..

It's kinda sad, if a little inevitable, that competition is the driving force behind so much.

@Howard, videos are awesome, thanks for posting. That type of riding does look fun, I guess perhaps because it's quite different to what and how I currently tend to ride. Having hiked a bike up a few munroes to bomb back down I wonder if a Cleland style bike would allow for moer of the up to be ridden and wonder how it'd handle the down.