What is the fascination with old bikes, calling them Retro seems to convey something positive.
I am not a complete philistine I appreciate what we have now by remembering how crap bikes were in the past.
If you go to the Science museum in swindon they have got loads of really retro rides - all useless, junk of course.
I am not a complete philistine I appreciate what we have now by remembering how crap bikes were in the past.
Such as?
old bike look lovely to those that rode them back in the day.
I agree modern stuff rides better and I would argue it does for all but the most jey or deluded.
I speak as somone with a 1992 to bike in the loft, last loaned to someone in 2003.
Last year the day before a week in the Swiss alps, I blew the rebound cartridge in my forks - my only option was to take my 12 year old DH bike, the result was the brakes worked better than ever after getting good & hot, I was the only one not to suffer mechanicals or punctures & now I feel a kind of in awe of it - strange but I need the space but not sure I want to sell it.
Partly due to not having the finances to change it at the moment, and partly because I love it, I ride a '94 vintage Zaskar on rigid forks. I love it. I ride mountain bikes because I enjoy it, and I just enjoy riding my old rigid bike, so Im' in no real rush to change it tbh. There's a Rocky Mountain Element f&f in the shed, but I just don't seem to get on with full suss.
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