Cook Bros Dogbone stem?

White Industries polished hub porn?

M737?

Tioga T-bone?

Ringlé Ti-Sticks?

Cosmic?

Discuss/continue.

DCD

Synchros Cattleprod stem.

90s Selle Italia Flite

Z1s! Smoother than melted butter. What a fork!

Ringle stem

Cook bros cranks

Paul’s components rear mech

Onza bar ends

ZZYZX forks

Edit: also, that saddle on that bike, and that stem.

Onza bar ends

XTR M950 groupset

*that* colour P7

Will always be these for me …

Small boys in the park? Isn’t it? Wasn’t it? Mmm?

Onza bar ends.
Porcs.

Proper Thumbies.
9 speed XT Triple.

Salsa qrs.

+1 Flite Seat

Smoke and Dart

Actually..

My brother had that colour P7, STX RC groupset. I nicked it without asking and crashed it flat out head on into a barbed wire fence. Split the headtube. Fair to say he wasn’t best pleased.

Small boys in the park? Isn’t it? Wasn’t it? Mmm?

Bula hats for slalom markers. Isn’t it? Wasn’t it?

@Matt- the Sprint version of that was my summer race tyre for a couple of years. Awesome in the dry, but if you so much as sneezed in front of your tyre, a crash was inevitable.

@Matt- the Sprint version of that was my summer race tyre for a couple of years. Awesome in the dry, but if you so much as sneezed in front of your tyre, a crash was inevitable

I think most retro kit lacked functionality… Tioga Disc anyone?

’86 Groondies

Hite Rite

Cool Tool

And a purple anno ringle bottle cage

Girvin fork.

USE alu seatpost
Dia Compe brake levers
Grip Shift

Carbon wheels by spin and spinergy

X lite riser bar

Anodized purple v-brake booster

I had a purple Marin ‘rain proof’* top that made me look like a RibenaBerry and feel like Stuart Hall.
Not that.

*Nope.

Funnily enough the Cosmic stuff would probably go down quite well with the gravel grinder set 😉 A lot the other stuff was cool but an evolutionary dead end.

I’ll give a nod to the 1988 proto bike by Kestrel / Paul Turner / Keith Bontrager IIRC. Proper oil damped air sprung suspension, and an early example of carbon fiber being used in an innovative way.

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I give up…. Flexstem 🙄

The Buffalo cycling shirt that was multi coloured & had a flap that wrapped around your under carriage.

AXO Pony boots.

The Buffalo cycling shirt that was multi coloured & had a flap that wrapped around your under carriage.

There’s some on this forum that still wear one all winter…

Blimey. Small world ta11pau1. I was in Didcot yesterday and snapped this strange bike inside an office foyer:

Syncros Cranks

26″ wheels.

Man, I don’t know how we used to ride that shit…

Flex Stem, purple canti hangers, Crud Catcher and Flite saddle for me.

Sun Tour thumb shifters. The XT ones above come close and I have a set on a tandem. but it was Sun Tour that laid the foundations of mountain biking by making flat bar shifting a thing. Truly iconic.

my initial though was a Syncros component, such as

The cranks were also cool, but much rarer so the stem is a stronger bet.

But the true concept of ‘retro’ has got to be something that we don’t use anymore, and that means bar ends, so I’ll echo tallpaul but this time with the L-bends, not the welded type: