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I'd say they'd be amazed at the amount of grip modern tubless tyres can generate. that and fork travel. I remember a conversation with a guy in the Chilterns who thought my bike would be unridable with 100mm forks on them (manitou X verts ) back when 100mm was considered a DH fork
They'd look at the fact a lot of us are still running the exact same Shimano SPD system and realise it's not going to becoming obsolete, fit XTR pedals to all their bikes and never have to worry about pedals ever again 😉
They'd look at the fact a lot of us are still running the exact same Shimano SPD system and realise it's not going to become obsolete, fit XTR pedals to all their bikes and never have to worry about pedals ever again 😉
One of my issues with these threads is that we always seem to end up with the narrow flat bar, long stem era. Oh and we had steep head angles as well
But in the 1980s we had wider riser bars, shortish stems and slacker head angles, compared to the 90s. Infact internal rim width was bang on trend for now and bikes were very solidly built
I even think people road quite technical trails in an arse back slow sort of way
I think in the 1990s there were attempts to link a seat quick release to a bar on the lever. With a spring behind the saddle to do the extending
'That looks like a filing cabinet'
Ha! My two bikes hanging on the wall would spark the same age old comments as “they’re covered in dust, why aren’t you riding them”
Then I’d look blankly in the distance and smile passively and mutter “yeah, been there, done that”
Then go running.
"Your bike is a bit of a girly colour and look at those disc brakes that cost less than a set of XT v brakes"
If we went to the mid 90s when I would have been riding at university I think my 140mm forked 456 would not look that out of place.
Shorter stems and wider riser bars with braces were coming in. The Sun Rhino rims were appearing with longer forks being used to slacken hardtail and FS bike head angles, the Orange Z1s were the big fork of choice or Manitou triple clamps.
Does anyone still make decent quality cable disks
I knew we could flush a luddite out of hiding if we just dangled the right bait.