How old is too old?
 

[Closed] How old is too old?

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Clearly riding around on a Muddy fox courier would be a niche hobby, but how old would a bike be to cross that line into the 'bikes are very different nowadays' category?


 
Posted : 21/11/2010 8:09 pm
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well if your happy riding whatever the bike is don't worry about what anyone else thinks.

But my Zesty is worlds apart from my old courier!!!

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Posted : 21/11/2010 8:13 pm
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Slack angls on the Muddy Fox...


 
Posted : 21/11/2010 8:15 pm
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valleydaddy...........i bet the 3 points of contact are pretty much in the same place.


 
Posted : 21/11/2010 8:17 pm
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sure, but 'happy enough' is not quite the point. I mean going round some of the trail centres on a MF courier would miss the point.


 
Posted : 21/11/2010 8:17 pm
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Ton - looks like the effective angles ain't that different either


 
Posted : 21/11/2010 8:22 pm
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Off on a tangent slightly, but I've just rescued my 1989 Muddy Fox Courier Comp from my Mum and Dads... I feel some kind of project coming on in 2011 ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 21/11/2010 8:23 pm
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I've just rebuilt an old 90s steel rigid mtb and you know what? It's rubbish. It was rubbish when I bought it but it passed for good at the time, because we didn't know better then. People argue about where and when mountain bikes were invented, well as far as I can tell they hadn't been invented by 1991. I've had my modern rigid out for a few proper rides lately and it's great fun so it's not just a suspension thing- old bikes are poo.

I stopped mtbing for a long time so I'm not sure at what point they stopped being poo though.


 
Posted : 21/11/2010 9:15 pm