Hello from Indy! 95 A2R
Posted: April 16th, 2012, 9:45 pm
Hello to all you 'Cuda owners! I'm a mountain biker from Indianapolis, Indiana USA. I currently own a 2011 Niner Jet9 and an On-One 456 Carbon. I am active with the Hoosier Mountain Bike Association, and help out with new trail construction in Indianapolis and central/southern Indiana.
I was looking for a beater bike to ride to work, and to pull my BOB trailer for trail work, and while perusing Craigslist, I found this Barracuda A2R. It was owned by a roadie who occasionally mountain biked, and IIRC he bought it brand new. I had no idea of the history behind Barracuda bikes, but it rode nicely and everything worked. It appears to be all original. So I plunked down the money and off I went.
The first thing I noticed was that it was made with Tange steel, which I knew right then that this was not regular ordinary bike, and definitely not an X-Mart bike. After a little research I found your site, and found out the bike was a '95 model. I had planned on modifying it a bit to fit me better, but I'm going to leave it alone for now. It's just a hair too small, but I only plan on riding to work (a two mile round trip) and pulling the BOB with rhinos and chainsaw.
I'm kinda stoked that I backed into this find! The last old mountain bike I had was a '97 GT LTS-5 with the elastomer FS, and burgundy/yellow scheme.
Chat with you all later!
Dave
I was looking for a beater bike to ride to work, and to pull my BOB trailer for trail work, and while perusing Craigslist, I found this Barracuda A2R. It was owned by a roadie who occasionally mountain biked, and IIRC he bought it brand new. I had no idea of the history behind Barracuda bikes, but it rode nicely and everything worked. It appears to be all original. So I plunked down the money and off I went.
The first thing I noticed was that it was made with Tange steel, which I knew right then that this was not regular ordinary bike, and definitely not an X-Mart bike. After a little research I found your site, and found out the bike was a '95 model. I had planned on modifying it a bit to fit me better, but I'm going to leave it alone for now. It's just a hair too small, but I only plan on riding to work (a two mile round trip) and pulling the BOB with rhinos and chainsaw.
I'm kinda stoked that I backed into this find! The last old mountain bike I had was a '97 GT LTS-5 with the elastomer FS, and burgundy/yellow scheme.
Chat with you all later!
Dave