the tech stuff does get in the way sometimes

I sort of know where your coming from there. I've spent a few years trading up to a nice, well specc'ed FS bike, with some nice kit hung off it. But of late I find myself looking at why & where & what I ride. I keep thinking of something like an Orange P7, & contemplating trading all my kit for a nice simple HT. No bolt-thru forks, no 5" Pro-Pedalled rear ends etc. Just a nice, simple steel HT that I can pick up & put down at will, & get back to what dragged me into mtb all those years ago. I've an old steel road-bike that doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is, but you know what…I love it because it flies in the face of all the hype etc. It can sit there for weeks, looking unloved, but as soon as I start off down the road on it that old cycling thing comes right back again. 😐
Yours.
Dis Gruntled. 🙂

I'll avoid riding on the road till cars fall out of favour.

except for when you're taking beginners the wrong way down a cycle path?

except for when you're taking beginners the wrong way down a cycle path?

avoid is not the same as never use :o)

I am a mountainbiker as it's a handy excuse when I fall out the back of road rides 🙂