what classic bike item do you wish would make a comeback?

95 Turner Burner

Oh hang on…

With red Judy DH forms and a matching red Hope Big Un + disc brake. Downhill weapon BITD

The plastic mudguards that I had on my Grifter – no idea if they guarded mud effectively but they made a great motorbike sound when shoved against the tyre 🙂

3-speed twist-shift was great too 🙂 I want an adult sized Grifter, my favourite bike ever

captainflashheart: I got to meet him at Bikeradar Live thing at Brands Hatch in 2010 or whenever it was. I saw some kid riding along on a new Breezer so ran after him and got him to stop to find out where he got it from. Turned out to be Jo’s son and then I met Jo himself later on 🙂

Seriously tempted by buying a new one, Evans will have them in the UK soon, just a shame they are not doing the new Lightnings in the red/white, only the black which was specific to the xtr shod Lightning back in the day, mines the Pro which came with a full xc pro setup (except oddly the pedals which were xt)

This, mine got nicked whilst at a race in Cannock Chase (yes I was waiting for my race)

Booo bloomin hooo… I’m still annoyed about it all these years later.

Marin Team Titanium (photo off retrobike BTW)

You can’t have enough pics of this beauty, Fat Chance “Yo Eddy” I lusted after this bike, I couldn’t get hold of one but I did get a t-shirt..

The Fat Chance Yo Eddy – mmmmmmmmm!
Etto helmets – green for the win!
All day epic rides using maps and local knowledge
Getting lost
Original Clockwork (still got mine from ’93)
OriginalOrange team kit
John Tomac,Ned Overend,Tim Gould etc

You’ve done it now – i’moff out on my Clockwork

If there’s one thing (well, two things now I think of it) that I would like to see make a comeback then it would have to be replacement stems and straight gauge (ie. no bulge) Ti bars for my Trimnell forks…

It’d make getting spares a hell of a lot easier than it is now! 😉

The above pic reminds me of trying to keep my Cannondale beast of the east looking like new. I used to dip a cloth in petrol and rub hell out of the skinwalls to get them looking like new.

Petrol!

+1 for Pedro’s Milk Levers. Still using mine after 20 years.

I’ve got a purple 7-speed Crud Claw somewhere…a potentially good idea, but the noise – oh God, the noise!

martinxyz – Member
The above pic reminds me of trying to keep my Cannondale beast of the east looking like new. I used to dip a cloth in petrol and rub hell out of the skinwalls to get them looking like new.

Petrol!

No petrol went anywhere near my bike when the picture was taken.. Conti tyres were always that colour 😉

The above pic reminds me of trying to keep my Cannondale beast of the east looking like new. I used to dip a cloth in petrol and rub hell out of the skinwalls to get them looking like new.

Petrol!

Autoglym car upholstery cleaner works a treat.