Jun
22
About The Evolution Of Mountain Bikes
It’s obvious from the name that the mountain bike was designed for riding on mountain slopes. The guys who invented them rode around on ordinary bikes, but wanted to take them offroad. Since there were no Diamondback bikes around, they had to invent the MB themselves. They didn’t have many tools to work with, but they had a lot of imagination and determination.
The bikes they had to work with at the time were nothing special. They weren’t the sleek racing bikes because those bikes had narrow tires that had no traction in the dirt. They had to start with bikes with fat tires.
What racing bikes have that fat tired bikes didn’t have was a good range of gears. The first mountain bikes were hybrids. They took the derailleurs from the best racing bikes and added them to the clunky bikes they were using on the trails.
The upright handlebars of street bikes were no good for their new bikes. They started off by sticking straight steel bars on their bikes. Later, they added perpendicular pieces of steel to the ends, so they could pull back on the handlebars when they were climbing up steep hills.
Still not satisfied with their hybrid designs, these young inventors started designing and making custom frames from scratch. They started using lighter weight metals and made radical changes to the frame designs. It wasn’t long before people took notice of their bikes and started ordering them from the makers.
Only years later did the big companies start making mountain bikes. The Schwinn mountain bike followed the earlier brands. As a result, those small manufacturers established names for themselves and were able to compete. Today, they still hold a large share of the MB market.
One thing that wasn’t cool looking about the early mountain bike riders was their choice of helmets. A black helmet designed for playing football in was both impractical and stupid looking. Helmet designers saw an opening and came up with great designs made specifically for mountain bikes.
If anybody thought that the mountain bike was just a fad before, nobody does today. They continue to dominate the market and people ride them on the road even more than off the road. With all the improvements that the big parts manufacturers have come up with, you can now get a bike with 24 gears and disc brakes.
It would be a big stretch to say that the MB is as important invention as the PC. Nevertheless, the two share similar histories. Both of them came from the minds of young enthusiasts with little money, but big ideas. They both say a lot about the power of ideas and determination.
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