After purple anodizing made a brief, but abortive attempt at a comeback, what else needs to make the effort to come back in to fashion?
I vote for amber wall tyres. They look so damned classy!
Ditch the shadow mech and bring back Cog-Hogs 🙂
Panaracer Magics
Tioga Farmer Johns
Tioga Farmer Johns Cousin
7 speed
bontrager steel frames.
fulham
STX-RC canti brakes and ritchy OCR wheels 🙂
dcd's
Biopace - thread closed!
sq taper BBs
Labour
Amber wall tyres? If you mean skin wall I'm with you 100%. I can't stand black wall tyres, they just make a bike "look" heavy, I don't know why. I think Jo Burt might agree.
My 2p's worth: Hite-Rites -why oh why has no one remade these yet, as a budget version of the £150 adjustable seatposts? I can't believe no one has yet. I would buy one today.
Sodastream and Cremola Foam
robdob, that is indeed what I mean. Skin/Amber, you get the idea!
+1 Zaskar
XT thumbies!
STX-RC canti brakes and ritchy OCR wheels
My wife's 12.5" GT Backwoods has a full STX RC groupset on it. Works so well I get jealous, and the look and finish of it is fantastic. The Rear mech could almost be more Italian design than regular Shimano stuff.
Had a pair of Amber walled IRC mythos semi slicks. lasted years as the chances of using them were so few and far between, they needed the driest of dusty summer conditions, but damn if they weren't the nicest looking tyres ever
Labour
[bored yawn] give it a rest now, just get over it [/bored yawn]
conti vert pros
7 speed
v brakes
poppers and thunderbird....... 8)
my stolen king kikapu
mechs with antlers on 'em
my hair. 🙄
Thatcher innit 😉
airborne bikes need a proper one, the bikes they are selling now look a bit poo. i want a lucky strike 🙁
That weird Marin paint.
Me (got fat and huffing and puffing Rocky style up those hills on a diet)
bruneep - Member
my hair.
lol!
Polished silver finishing kit. Black powder coat may be cheaper for the manufacturers (which is why it's so prevalent), but it looks heavy and unfinished to me.
trike conversion axles
[url= http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/components/trike-conversion-components.html ]retro!!![/url]
The stone roses.
What needs to make a comeback?
Padded Fred - banned again and he knows not why
Padded Fred - banned again and he knows not why
maybe co he gets a bit nasty........like someone else..... 😉
Bula
[i]Padded Fred - banned again and he knows not why [/i]
Jesus that didn't take long, what an idiot
Aztec bars
Girvin flex stem
mountain bikes, as opposed to 'slopestyle lite/xc exstreme' 'xtremeslopestyle/4Xmegalite/bollox'
just bikes you n me ride
remember back in the day? great wannit, a new type of bike you could go anywhere on?
Oh and JT Racing, yeah bring back JT Racing coolest stuff ever 8)
comebacks
Riding all day long instead of posting shite on here all day long...
Padded Fred - banned again
😆 - I will miss him though, as his latest incarnation did seem to have calmed down a bit (though I get the impression from some comments that mods were just deleting whole postings of his, so maybe I missed the worst stuff).
Well I can guarantee that amber wall tyres are indeed coming back, I saw some shiny 2011 bikes today and they were all sporting them.
Other predictions include more real leather parts and alot more neon coloured parts.
Super skinny steel tubes will be back too.
Who's padded Fred?
robdob - talkemada was his latest incarnation.
I don't know why the mods have been so harsh on him. I have seen much worse from others on here although he does get a bit stroppy. The mods won't even tell him why he is banned now - and deleted post of his that contained nothing very much by all accounts - warned then banned with no further posting. NO braking of the rules this time that I saw.
I think he just upsets the cosy middle-class little englander ethos too much
I think its a shame - people like him stop this place being so bland and he was behaving better.
Other folk on here behave worse and get away with it - Ton with his alter ego bombadillo that he used to make xenophobic comments for one. Breaking lots of STW rules and not banned. He is not the only one.
Its a shame - and this post and perhaps my days are numberd
