no… carbon full susser for me…. no matter how good that bike was in the day, it’ll be awful to ride by comparison to anything modern, and nostalgia will wear off very quickly indeed

Nice, but it’s only “new” until the 1st ride.

Do you want to ride it or look at it? If the former, buy a carbon super bike, if the latter buy the Klein.

1990s mountain bikes, however fondly we remember them, suck to actually ride, compared to modern standards. Discuss.

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Whooosh!

Gorgeous bike!

I’d stick it on the wall, but that’s sacrilege when it really should be ridden..hard. But then you’d ruin it.

I really miss my Attitude (green/white/pink) but would I love it now?

Yes, yes I think I would.

someone please take a moment to summarise why that frame/bike is so special? Tar..

Very desirable bike in the 90s they, were one of the first to use over-sized alu tubes to make their bikes much lighter and they were known for very outlandish paint schemes.

I think Trek bought them and slowly killed the brand.

It’s a bit like the Audi in this forum

http://www.classic-audi.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=31588

I can’t find the exactly link but someone found a ‘new’ un registered Audi UR Quattro, in it’s day it was innovative, expensive and very desirable – by todays standards it’s old fashioned and modern cars of it’s type are better in every measurable way.

Someone bought it for £50k or so, if they actually use it much it’ll just become another UR Quattro and worth maybe £20k but it’ll never be used – it’s valuable because it’s rare, not because of it’s tangible value.

Whilst this sentiment is true, it’ll still depreciate slower than the £5k superbike / stone.

As for the audi, there was an ex rally barn find on ebay not so long ago, went for ~£10k. I was saving for a deposit at the time but it could very easily have been the best/worst thing I’ve ever bought.

Those klein hard tails were gorgeous, the colour schemes were mint, however those klein mantras – not so much!

To be honest if I had £5k to spend on a whim on a retro bike that came up on ebay I’d probably already have my dream bike 🙂 I’d buy it and ride it – probably even turn up to some races with it for a laugh

They were nothing special, niche and very overpriced boutique bikes in their day so not worth it now unless you are bored off buying golf clubs and poncy cars

Shipped in a box for the fuselage ??????????/ It`s a bicycle not a 747 does flowery bollox speak make it worth more ?

Depends what you ride today. I ride rigid MTBs and can’t say they really feel any better to ride than my Cannondale M800 or Kona Cindercone I had in early 90’s.

My Salsa El Mariachi is vastly better than my 1996 Orange P7 was. Mostly down to geometry and wheel size.

I don’t really get the whole value beyond it function thing

Loads of better things to do with £5000

But the person who buys will have enough cash to have all the modern bikes they want

I don’t think I wanted one when they came out they just looked silly to me

I once bought a pretty mint very old SH Muddy Fox Interactive just because I so wanted one when they came out, it did ride like crap though so I sold it on to a collector for less than it was worth because he appreciated it & was going to keep it.
Now if anyone want to give me silly money for a mint original Turner Burner then I’m open to offers 😉

My steel Rockhopper rides just fine, as good as any other hardtail I’ve ridden.
Takes wide rubber, fits well, light, fun.
S’got a slightly shorter stem now, risers too.
Brakes apart, it’s a lovely bike.
I’m going to singlespeed it and use it over winter.

The Orange Clockwork I had before that was an evil handling, ugly, overpriced, badly built mess.

Good bikes will always be good, no matter how old they are.

FYI: Klein marketed their frames and forks as a ‘fuselage’ when they sold them originally, so it is not flowery bollox speak, well it is, but it isn’t 😉