Barracuda - Totally Driven!

Here is the serial number for a 1995, 16" A2R that went through my hands in June of 2011. Last seen somewhere in Austin, TX.

Hey Mix,

I gotta ask... what's going on with that crazy riser stem? With the riding position being so high (central to the frame) and the short rake fork... is it purely a neighborhood warrior ride or is it trail worthy? With that stem on there, it would make for a good "Dirt Drop" bike. I'm building one these days out of a '92 GT Timberline, the quill stem has 35 degrees of rise and has an overall length of 150mm... ideal for a dirt drop!

Just curious my man... how about the XX Team bike?

Peace,

-D-

p.s. I added a pic of my '85 Ritchey, I sold it to my buddy Tim who built it up as a dirt drop bike... pretty sweet!

I dunno, but that is the second A2R I have seen with that goofy stem. Ask Mark, the Barracuda expert..

I don't know who inspired the rest of you back in the day (for those of you who were alive and riding)... was it Ned the machine, maybe Tinker the terror, or the cowboy Johnnie T. (Tomac)... I will forever hold John Tomac as the greatest ever, no one to this day has matched his marks, period. However, it was Tinker's drop stem that has most impacted my bike set up. Remember all those years on the Volvo/Cannondale team, his negative angle stem was almost as memorable as his curly mop top... this was "my era" and I hold those years as the best time period our beloved sport has ever had! Anyway, to this day I still ride a very flat stem... yes, I was a copycat and flipped my stem over but so did a lot of other people (who usually flipped it right back after the first ride) but I came from a road racing background, so the riding position was great and familiar. I have never has a crazy riser stem until I started building the dirt drop GT. I trip out on guys who ride in a "beach cruiser" position out on the trail. That's just me...

I don't know but this is where I come from..

I bet those of us on the older side started riding that type of bike but when we got closer to being a teen those bikes became rat bikes..would yank all parts that had no value to the cool look find a ten speed seat put that on find early bmx parts to finish off the build.

I put a solo seat on that bike once.. It was crazy..

As a kid making a rat bike out of the old muscle bike frames who ever had the most Ashtabula parts on their bike was the cool one...must say I had the cranks and stem but never got my hands on the forks. O... and the old square mx style handlebars with the square number plate with holes drilled in it...would find the foam from ac units to put on the bars...memeories of easyer times with the bikes. Then one kid showed up with a Webco and that was the beginning of it all and had to have a real BMX stlye bike..