[mpermar]

Now I miss my 90s cheap MTB. I remember me as a teenager buying and setting up the bar ends. It felt so cool. For a kid it was like the ultimate performance improvement.

But well, right, they were so 90s. That wouldn't really fit at all with the current super posh MTBs out there.

[soared]

Cyclocross and gravel bikes are the modern equivalent of the 90s MTB and ride very similarly. A bit tough and dangerous on downhills, just like the good ol days.

[petre]

Thee are also flat bar gravel bikes like the Salsa Journeyman flat bar or the Marin DSX.