MAKE A MEME View Large Image This is my 1984 Raleigh Tamarack, from their Mountain Tour series. They made the Mountain Tour bikes from '84 to '87, if I'm remembering the years right, but this '84 model Tamarack was Raleigh's only 650-B they made in that line-up and ...
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Keywords: vehicle bike tire This is my 1984 Raleigh Tamarack, from their Mountain Tour series. They made the Mountain Tour bikes from '84 to '87, if I'm remembering the years right, but this '84 model Tamarack was Raleigh's only 650-B they made in that line-up and just that one year, so that makes this one a little different. What really makes this bike so cool is not the 650-B tires, as they feel exactly like any big wheeled-wheel hovering around the 26" size, but it's the relaxed, or as I would put it, the radical seat and head tube angles given these bikes that gives them their unique feel in steering, (a kind-of-heavy side to side feel. These frames were made very similarly to the old English style geometry of the early years of the 20th century.) With that, the bike rides quite differently than other street bikes, which this really is, a streeter, and not a honest effort at a mountain bike, (the front end tends to pop UP on very steep inclines in the dirt.) It was marketed as a street bike, back then, for the most part, yet they are fun and useful machines and excellent on the road. And as 650-B's were not well accepted back in the '80's, or even '90's, that wheel sizing barely held on to its uniqueness till later, when 650-B's came into their own. It wasn't till the post-2,000 years that 650-B's really got popular with racers. Though different, it is still a lot of fun to ride on dirt roads, streets and some moderate trails. It's worth keeping and keeping-up. Although I do not have knobbies for it, the bike rides well enough with loads of fun on short or long dirt rides. The width of these tires are 1.5 inch. Light and pleasant to use even though they are much narrower than most 650-B's out there. If you run across one of the Mountain Tour bikes, and you like fat tires for the street, I, and others, can recommend these Mountain Tour, Raleigh's. They're fun machines. This is my 1984 Raleigh Tamarack, from their Mountain Tour series. They made the Mountain Tour bikes from '84 to '87, if I'm remembering the years right, but this '84 model Tamarack was Raleigh's only 650-B they made in that line-up and just that one year, so that makes this one a little different. What really makes this bike so cool is not the 650-B tires, as they feel exactly like any big wheeled-wheel hovering around the 26" size, but it's the relaxed, or as I would put it, the radical seat and head tube angles given these bikes that gives them their unique feel in steering, (a kind-of-heavy side to side feel. These frames were made very similarly to the old English style geometry of the early years of the 20th century.) With that, the bike rides quite differently than other street bikes, which this really is, a streeter, and not a honest effort at a mountain bike, (the front end tends to pop UP on very steep inclines in the dirt.) It was marketed as a street bike, back then, for the most part, yet they are fun and useful machines and excellent on the road. And as 650-B's were not well accepted back in the '80's, or even '90's, that wheel sizing barely held on to its uniqueness till later, when 650-B's came into their own. It wasn't till the post-2,000 years that 650-B's really got popular with racers. Though different, it is still a lot of fun to ride on dirt roads, streets and some moderate trails. It's worth keeping and keeping-up. Although I do not have knobbies for it, the bike rides well enough with loads of fun on short or long dirt rides. The width of these tires are 1.5 inch. Light and pleasant to use even though they are much narrower than most 650-B's out there. If you run across one of the Mountain Tour bikes, and you like fat tires for the street, I, and others, can recommend these Mountain Tour, Raleigh's. They're fun machines.
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