The Bridgestone MB-1 was the lead mountain bike of the MB series from Bridgestone Cycle, a company that jumped onto the mountain-bike bandwagon in the 1980s but approached it from a road perspective. Early versions came with drop handlebars and 126 mm dropout spacing. Where the California cruiser mountain bikes of the early and mid 1980s had 44 inch wheelbases, chainstays of 18 inches or more and frame angles in the high 60-degree range, the Bridgestone designs of Grant Petersen had much steeper frame angles and much shorter chain stays, which made them more maneuverable and better climbers. Sheldon Brown says that design is still the standard for rigid-frame mountain bikes.
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and a fairly small bicycle company, with its own factory in Japan.
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Early versions of the MB-1 came with drop handlebars and 126 mm dropout spacing!
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and a fairly small bicycle company, with its own factory in Japan.
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From the RB-1 to the trail-ready MB-1 and the genre-bending XO-1, every Bridgestone carries a following and a story.
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