This phrase croped up in the custom steel bike discussion.
Now I’m not going to argue that bikes aren’t subject to fassion, lets face it they’re a toy and therefore arueing that they’re better than each other and buying one over the other puts them on a par with my missus shoe buying fettish Vs my ‘brown work shoes, black work shoes, trainers, boots’. They’re push bikes, they can’t be better than each other in functional terms as they serve no function, therefore they are fassion, functional has an engine and is called a car.
But “on trend”, I’d like to think that bikes retain a bit of functionality at their heart, even if that function is to be functional at something pointless like riding up and down a hill for fun. But this isn’t the first time I’ve heard it (for my sins I’ve read MBR and MBUK recently), are we going to see the ‘spring/summer 2014 collection from Specialized’ with ‘on trend for next year’ 71/70 retro 90’s angles?
Not sure if I’m more annoyed by the frankly autistic obsession over numbers or lack of a certain axle standard/chain device/headtube by some people that leads them to the conclusion that their current bike is somehow obsolete or a potential new bike is not suitable as it doesn’t accept the latest supermegaoversized143.7mmrearaxlechainguide”*. Or the idea that what I’m somehow involved in is fassionable rather than just being fun**.
*SMO1437RACG, you saw it hear first, it’s the future, your current bike is now obsolete.
** a bit like the difference between me wearign a t-shirt becasue it’s keeping my pasty white flesh covered up and a fenchurch hoodie becasue it was £12.50 in TK maxx , and Edd Sheerans costume change from suitited and booted musician to “still the quiet boy in a Fenchurch T” at the Brits.
