no modern roadbike will ever come close to this.
https://www.speedbicycles.ch/velo/532/colnago_master_piu_1989.html
10 years is an odd time frame in the mtb world. It means we are looking at 2014 bikes. (I know, where did the years go).
That was a time when all three wheel sizes were represented. 1x drivetrains were around but not ubiquitous. Droppers were commonplace but often not supplied OEM. Geo might have been on the cramped size by modern standards but they still handled pretty much like a modern bike, just not quite as good. Pikes or 34s were up front, shocks with climb switches on the rear, tyres were tubeless and generally worked.
The first MTB I bought new was in 2014 (Bird Aeris) and I'd not have too many (or any) complaints to riding that today aside from the lack of water bottle holder.
Go back another 5 years though, and everything is different. I'm sure someone will find an ahead of its time outlier but 2009 bikes as a whole look fairly laughable by todays standards. About the only thing that has stood the test of time is the brakes of that age arent much different to todays.
But on a wet ride two weeks ago. I have never heard noise like this disc brakes from multiple bikes
I had this. Then I changed rotors - went to ice-tech, now silence. I think it's the crappy stamped rotors that are ubiquitous.
