I had the same struggle with these conversions many times haha. Apparently the long and low aggressive geometry of retro MTBs aren't suited for this kind of usage.
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I had the same struggle with these conversions many times haha. Apparently the long and low aggressive geometry of retro MTBs aren't suited for this kind of usage.