Retro mountain bikes

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M_V in reply to @ricky2slicky

My theory was that by adding a taller fork, it would raise the front end but make the wheel base slightly longer and slacken the angles like modern hardtails.

Yeah, but no.

It will slacken your head angle and lengthen the wheel base, but it'll also lift your bb, slacken your seat angle and reduce your standover.

I put a longer fork and a 29er wheel on the front of a not so old Genesis IO and it really wasn't as much fun as I imagined it'd be.

I had pretty much zero bb drop which made handling pretty weird and the 3rd or 4th time I cracked my nuts on the toptube I gave in and built something else. A 90s bike will have even worse standover issues as the frames don't tend to be that compact.

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ricky2slicky in reply to @M_V

Thanks for the feedback. The more research I did and the more I looked at the bike, I'd started to think it probably wasn't going to solve the problem that I wanted it to. I'll go back to the drawing board.

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Howard in reply to @ricky2slicky

I'd started to think it probably wasn't going to solve the problem that I wanted it to.

Additionally, the problem of the head-tube departing the rest of the frame due to the increased forces becomes very real.

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