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  1. Original post
    Paul Boyd
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    Just a bit of idle rambling. Up until about ten years ago I was a
    serious MTBer, and now I'm getting back into it again. In those days,
    we had nice wide rims that gave a good square shape to the tyre. (No
    suspension either, and caliper brakes ruled!) When did they change to
    these silly narrow rims that make fat tyres into a balloon shape that
    skip about all over the place unless you drop the pressure? You look
    for wide rims these days, and they seem to be on the Downhill section of
    the websites, as if they are something special and different. I want
    wide rims!

    Times change, I guess, and certainly when I look at photos of my then
    pride and joy, an Overbury's Pioneer with top-of-the range Deore XT, it
    don't half look old-fashioned!

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    Paul Boyd
    http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

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  2. Simon Brooke
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    in message <[email hidden]>, Paul

    Boyd (') said:

    Just a bit of idle rambling. Up until about ten years ago I was a
    serious MTBer, and now I'm getting back into it again. In those days,
    we had nice wide rims that gave a good square shape to the tyre. (No
    suspension either, and caliper brakes ruled!) When did they change to
    these silly narrow rims that make fat tyres into a balloon shape that
    skip about all over the place unless you drop the pressure?

    What do you mean? I've been mountain biking for twenty years, and still
    have an eighteen year old mountain bike. And guess what? It's got narrow
    rims. Indeed... yes, here's a picture of me in about 1992, complete with
    a swamp-monster-vomit-green bike with... narrow rims.

    --
    [email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

    ;; I put the 'sexy' in 'dyslexia'

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  3. druidh
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    Simon Brooke said:

    in message <[email hidden]>, Paul

    Boyd (') said:

    Just a bit of idle rambling. Up until about ten years ago I was a
    serious MTBer, and now I'm getting back into it again. In those days,
    we had nice wide rims that gave a good square shape to the tyre. (No
    suspension either, and caliper brakes ruled!) When did they change to
    these silly narrow rims that make fat tyres into a balloon shape that
    skip about all over the place unless you drop the pressure?

    What do you mean? I've been mountain biking for twenty years, and still
    have an eighteen year old mountain bike. And guess what? It's got narrow
    rims. Indeed... yes, here's a picture of me in about 1992, complete with
    a swamp-monster-vomit-green bike with... narrow rims.


    I think it's just that tyres have got wider, not rims narrower.

    druidh

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  4. Rob Morley
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    In article <[email hidden]>

    druidh said:
    Simon Brooke said:

    in message <[email hidden]>, Paul

    Boyd (') said:

    Just a bit of idle rambling. Up until about ten years ago I was a
    serious MTBer, and now I'm getting back into it again. In those days,
    we had nice wide rims that gave a good square shape to the tyre. (No
    suspension either, and caliper brakes ruled!) When did they change to
    these silly narrow rims that make fat tyres into a balloon shape that
    skip about all over the place unless you drop the pressure?

    What do you mean? I've been mountain biking for twenty years, and still
    have an eighteen year old mountain bike. And guess what? It's got narrow
    rims. Indeed... yes, here's a picture of me in about 1992, complete with
    a swamp-monster-vomit-green bike with... narrow rims.


    I think it's just that tyres have got wider, not rims narrower.


    Both. Although narrow rims have been available for a long time they
    weren't commonly fitted to general-purpose ATBs. Back in the day 1.75"-
    1.95" tyres were common fitment and you couldn't easily get anything
    wider.

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  5. Paul Boyd
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    On 19/08/2006 21:34, Simon Brooke said,

    Quoted message said:

    What do you mean? I've been mountain biking for twenty years, and still
    have an eighteen year old mountain bike. And guess what? It's got narrow
    rims.

    OK then, narrow rims weren't that common back then!

    Quoted message said:

    Indeed... yes, here's a picture of me in about 1992, complete with
    a swamp-monster-vomit-green bike with... narrow rims.

    Where's the picture???

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    http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

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  6. Paul Boyd
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    On 20/08/2006 01:17, Rob Morley said,

    Quoted message said:

    Both. Although narrow rims have been available for a long time they
    weren't commonly fitted to general-purpose ATBs. Back in the day 1.75"-
    1.95" tyres were common fitment and you couldn't easily get anything
    wider.

    I've just been looking at a photo of my Overbury's bike, and the tyres
    look to be around 2.2", with about 28-30mm rims. I do remember at the
    time getting the biggest, knobbliest tyres I could find!

    It's a shame that bike was nicked, otherwise I would probably still have
    it, with disc bosses and suspension forks fitted by now, no doubt!

    Anyone remember wheel discs? They seemed like a good idea at the time,
    and seemed less of a good idea about two days later!

    --
    Paul Boyd
    http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

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  7. Rob Morley
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    In article <[email hidden]>
    Paul Boyd <[email hidden]> wrote:
    <snip>

    Quoted message said:

    It's a shame that bike was nicked, otherwise I would probably still have
    it,

    Likewise my first ATB - everything on it was just right, including the
    home-brew microdrive transmission and direct-pull front brake that I
    made before microdrive and direct-pull had been heard of. Although it
    did have thumbshifters, and I rather like Rapidfire these days.

    Quoted message said:

    with disc bosses and suspension forks fitted by now, no doubt!

    Oh no - Old Skool is cool :-)

    Quoted message said:


    Anyone remember wheel discs? They seemed like a good idea at the time,
    and seemed less of a good idea about two days later!


    ISTR we sold about a dozen sets of the Muddy Fox ones, and didn't bother
    restocking.

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  8. Paul Boyd
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    On 20/08/2006 15:18, Rob Morley said,

    Quoted message said:

    Likewise my first ATB - everything on it was just right, including the
    home-brew microdrive transmission and direct-pull front brake that I
    made before microdrive and direct-pull had been heard of. Although it
    did have thumbshifters, and I rather like Rapidfire these days.

    That seemed to be the thing then - make or modify your own stuff. My
    "speciality" was converting 6 speed freewheels into 7 speed using the
    extra position on 6 speed shifters and different spacers. My LBS said
    the indexing couldn't work, but I did a fair few of these conversions!
    The luxury of 21 gears :-) Now I have just 18 with a double front.

    I must admit that when I got back into MTBs, I was concerned about the
    fact that thumbshifters seemed to have disappeared. I do like
    RapidFire, but I'm still getting used to the "backwards" gear changes!

    Quoted message said:

    ISTR we sold about a dozen sets of the Muddy Fox ones, and didn't bother
    restocking.

    A mate had a set of those! Mine were plain fluorescent orange. Went
    very well with the pink and yellow bike. Yeah, right!

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    Paul Boyd
    http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

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  9. Simon Brooke
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    in message <[email hidden]>, Paul

    Boyd (') said:

    On 19/08/2006 21:34, Simon Brooke said,

    Quoted message said:

    What do you mean? I've been mountain biking for twenty years, and
    still have an eighteen year old mountain bike. And guess what? It's
    got narrow rims.

    OK then, narrow rims weren't that common back then!

    Quoted message said:

    Indeed... yes, here's a picture of me in about 1992, complete with
    a swamp-monster-vomit-green bike with... narrow rims.

    Where's the picture???

    Sorry, here: http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/tmp/lochvalley.jpg

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    [email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

    ;; I'll have a proper rant later, when I get the time.

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