I don't do much off-road riding either but that style of bike is fun to
ride anywhere!!
I found what is basically an engineering drawing that Joe Breeze did of
Breezer #1 and it had a 67.5 degree head angle and 50mm of rake on the
fork. Given that Tom Ritchey was influenced by the Breezers, I doubt there
was a huge difference in the way the Breezers and Ritcheys rode versus the
Stumpjumpers and other mass produced MTB's.
I'm finding that on my old Highlander, the key is to really use my body
more and my handlebars less. I tend to do this on any bike but I'm finding
that greatly exaggerating what I do on my other, more nimble, bikes works
really well on this one. Fat tires, long wheelbase, slack angles and one
gear.....LOVE IT!!
On Friday, November 7, 2014 9:44:04 AM UTC-6, Montclair BobbyB wrote:
>
> Chris:
>
> I didn't take my Typhoon on many actual trails (although I'm sure I would
> have struggled on climbs), but I sure spent lots of time on grass, jumping
> curbs, and skidding on gravel-dirt like nobody's business...
>
> Funny story, I spent a year a Univ of Dayton in 1976, and took along my
> trusty campus cruiser ('62 red Typhoon with white pinstriped rims and
> bricktread fat tires). One of my dorm buddies took a particular shining to
> it, and always asked to borrow it (everyone else riding their racing bikes
> around campus made fun of my Typhoon)... But this one guy (had a gleam in
> his eye when he looked at my Typhoon) and would ride it over anything that
> DIDN'T resemble a road, including snow mounds, stairs... you name it. And
> BTW that guy's name was Maurice Tierney, who *(many years later)* founded
> Dirt Rag / Bicycle Times. *(I like to kid around and claim that I got
> Maurice hooked on mountain biking... oddly there's a little bit of truth to
> that... and we owe lots of thanks to Frank Schwinn, father of the original
> fat tire movement... the rest is history.)*
>
> BB
>
>
>>>>
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