we seem to have the fondest memories for the heaviest, least technologically advanced bikes we had rather than the full suspension all singing all dancing disc braked mothers.
do you think we'd be happier if we just had bikes like we used to?
just wondering if i should go for something like this in future
[img] 
[/img]
[i]do you think we'd be happier if we just had bikes like we used to?[/i]
I don't think so. The chopper and grifter (as examples from that thread) were god awful bikes to ride.
I quite like the idea of riding a technologically advanced bike, but only with the bits that I want on it. Rigid forks are fine, just make sure they're carbon. 😉
i don't - my bikes have progressed from "shit" to amazing" over the course of my life, my current bike is by far and away my favourite so far 😀
good job really, wasn't exactly free...
the bikes you allude to were "of an era", jumper's for goalposts, fur lined hood parkers with your arms not in the sleeves, Quattro was a fizzy drink not a car and Wham bars were the size of roof tiles. Their technology, or lack of it, didnt really make the memories.
The bikes I have the happiest memories of riding were those I had when I used to ride every day, wasn't married, didn't have a mortgage and would have laughed my arse off if you'd told me that working 12 hours a day would one day seem normal.
It is possible that this is a coincidence, admittedly. 🙂