Musings of a 47 year old duffer
It is very easy to get misty eyed over your old bikes
In 94 I used to race a Steel S/works full rigid bike and it was fantastic got some reasonable results to, but I put it into retirement in about 98
Now 2009 and it is rebuilt Fast as fug it is (still) on smooth bits ie the road, but off road it hurts you get bounced all over the place. With a 130 stem and narrow bars it steers like a barge and shakes like hell on the downs that you cannot brake because you do not want to release your grip on the bars and the canti brakes do not work with 1 finger you need 3 fingers to slow down.
Retro is short for retrograde.
Sill a beautiful bike though but not for off road