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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
The 29er in this months mag did make me think "mmm amber wall tyres", it looked lush.
Well, I'm not particularly bothered about him being banned tbh (and I'll probably meet him soon, I think he knows my brother!!) but I think people are different on here than in real life. I have no idea why.
[i]I think he just upsets the cosy middle-class little englander ethos too much[/i]
Really? you think that? How many incarnations have there been, and how many times has he been banned?
[i]Other folk on here behave worse and get away with it[/i]
Yes they do, but no one behaves worse with such regularity. It was dull, predictable, and tedious
Cog hogs and Daves Chain Device
Thundercats
Salsa steel ahead stems. Mavic headsets and square taper bottom brackets (or, not to be backwards looking, lets change BB shell diameter so you can fit in bearings AND an axle).
And, bar ends. Climbing is part of mountain biking too.
But most of all, what needs to make a come back is natural, found, or self built trails. This trail centre malarky is WAY too dominant.
Oh, regarding your Fred bloke, he puts me off inhabiting this forum. That says something I think, he needs to go out on his bike more.
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I'd like to see a return to this, but I'll settle for permanent exile for the current lot.
MDMA
Rox t-shirts to go with aforementioned bula hats. Oakley frogskins are back already. Let's make it happen!
Breeze & Angel Hite-Rite
middle of the range bikes that are worth buying.
in my eyes youve got your £80-100 cheap taiwanese junk/everyday bikes, £150-300 gets you the same that looks better but is still pants and then you enter the market for something actually ridable for a beginner at £700-£800.Theres no middle of the road stuff..there used to be all differnet levels and all different build specs.
My libido
raleigh
[i]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 [/i]
Ive still got 4 tyres left from around 1996, still use them for racing on the dryest dustiest courses (which as you say are few and far between)
You can still getthem in the US too - can be picked up for about $8...
can also get the regular XC tyres here:
best tyres ive ever used...
talkemada got banned? - i thought he was one of the good guys...
(grumpy, but his heart's in the right place)
anyway, comebacks: toe straps.
can also get the regular XC tyres here:best tyres ive ever used...
It was all about the Kujo DH. Now that was a tyre.
Hair metal
Spelling and grammar
Texan bars
Austin Maxi's - if made reliable they would be a perfect MTB car, seats down, flat floor - brilliant
Leggy women - they all have short dumpy legs and long backs now 🙁
Home made go-karts made from wood and pram wheels
Summer of 1976
Proper kids games - tracking, ackey 1,2,3, building dens
Porn mags found in hedgerows etc
Klein paintjobs
Dekerf softails
British bulldog and murder ball in the playground
Quatro fizzy pop
Pumping acid house parties
Naturally occuring hallucinegens
Youth
Free time
skill
Otis the Aadvark....if thats how you spell his name.
[i]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?[/i]
colnagokid for PM!!!!!!
life before "risk assesments" and "blame culture"
quality 90's house music classics 😉
Splats.
Splats seemed to be everywhere at one point. Vinyl stick on splats for your car, flourescent pink and yellow splats on bike paintjobs.
And now they're gone.
Bar ends agreed, they just make so much sense. And klien bikes. I used to have a pair of urc kujo dh's. They were bulletproof, I never punctured them...
THIS:
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The Raleigh Streetwolf with the soundbox on the handlebars. Too cool for school!
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They're back!
Another Klein fan here. Still got my '96 Attitude in team colours and a '95 pulse in cloud grey, but if I could find one of these I'd kill for it:
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yeap fred needs to come back
Cocktail inspired ice lollies
Pacers (mint chewy sweets)
King Kong ice creams
Bananaman lollies
Massive Attack
Portishead
The Orb
Orbital
Early UB40
Early Level 42
Early David Bowie
The Ford Escort Mk1
The Audi Quattro uR
Early 80 Tushingham frame (now Orange) paint jobs
That pioneering excitement that used to come with early MTBing
Riding being for fit not fat people
Trimmed, not bare, lady gardens
Comedy giant mobile phones.
A genuinely usable/rideable £350 mtb, pref steel, rigid, geared. Like an old Kona Hahana/Fire Mountain...
be nice to see an updated version of Campag Record OR.
humility
Riding being for fit not fat people
Manners.
Spangles.