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A place to share our love of all things with two wheels and pedals. This is an inclusive, non-judgemental community. All types of cyclists are accepted here; whether you're a commuter, a roadie, a MTB enthusiast, a fixie freak, a crusty xbiking hoarder, in the middle of an epic across-the-world bicycle tour, or any other type of cyclist!

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Old school cool (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca

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[–] Amuletta@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago

Apparently there is now a trend to repurpose old 80s mountain bikes as gravel bikes. Sounds logical, but many of them had really long top tubes and very slack frame angles. Not sure if that really works well with drop bars. The rear dropout spacing probably wouldn't accommodate modern cassettes without some modifications either, they were designed for 6 cog freewheels.