Clearly riding around on a Muddy fox courier would be a niche hobby, but how old would a bike be to cross that line into the 'bikes are very different nowadays' category?
Slack angls on the Muddy Fox...
valleydaddy...........i bet the 3 points of contact are pretty much in the same place.
sure, but 'happy enough' is not quite the point. I mean going round some of the trail centres on a MF courier would miss the point.
Ton - looks like the effective angles ain't that different either
Off on a tangent slightly, but I've just rescued my 1989 Muddy Fox Courier Comp from my Mum and Dads... I feel some kind of project coming on in 2011 ๐
I've just rebuilt an old 90s steel rigid mtb and you know what? It's rubbish. It was rubbish when I bought it but it passed for good at the time, because we didn't know better then. People argue about where and when mountain bikes were invented, well as far as I can tell they hadn't been invented by 1991. I've had my modern rigid out for a few proper rides lately and it's great fun so it's not just a suspension thing- old bikes are poo.
I stopped mtbing for a long time so I'm not sure at what point they stopped being poo though.

