I heard that some of the vintage Trek MTBs had the same geometry as the 520 touring bike.

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Those sort of bikes are right up my street. You can ride them over really crappy road surfaces without the bike trying to throw you off or shake your fillings out. Plus they're lugged steel in many cases, and were often made over here not in the Far East (although that Trek 850 would be a Taiwanese cro-moly frame).
We weren't making too many bikes in the U.S. by that time. We may be going back to Taiwan soon, if the tariff schedules stay the same, a bike from the P.R.C. will cost 25% more than before. As my Dad said so many years ago, why would I buy my kid one of these cheap bikes, when good used English ones don't cost any more?
 
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