the GOT bike

 There are a couple other post ideas I've been musing for over a week, but this one leapfrogged ahead of them, and not just because in some ways it is even further overdue. Remember, good things come to those who wait, but sometimes this blog's posts come as well, so maybe that's net even. I've been excedingly happy to see mountain bike geometry revert back to what it was originally in the mid eighties: slack and long. It started with downhill bikes, and then eventually someone figured out that there wasn't any particular reason a bike had to be a twitchy mess just because it was light enough to climb back up the hill. A little bit longer, and the industry even realized that hardtails, without the benefit of rear suspension's stability, could benefit even more from geometry that was inherently stable. Yay! The problem for me was, by the time that was realized, even the hardtails were coming with 120mm travel forks, and those with the truly long and slack geometr...