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I may need to sell a kidney… That’s stunning.

going back many years... But Andy Ruffell (BMX star in the 80s) once borrowed my helmet when giving a cycle safety talk and BMX trick demo at a local school open day. I was a bit of a local hero by association for all of a day or two...

going back many years... But Andy Ruffell (BMX star in the 80s) once borrowed my helmet when giving a cycle safety talk and BMX trick demo at a local school open day. I was a bit of a local hero by association for all of a day or two...

Yes that looks like the same colouring. It's an 18" I beleive, so it should be ok, if a little snug. I live near Chicksands and Woburn so I have those trails available as well as the usual woodland bridleways, so I'm after kit that can take the usual quamlgmire of mud left by our equine...

I'd really love a hei hei (classic Kona geometry and the bragging-rights of a Ti frame - what's no to love?), but I'm getting the explosif for a song (I hope), so I can't buy one now if I want to stay married!

Dear lord that Pace is lovely - the question would be - how much is "the right money?" It looks like I am getting an Explosif frame (not sure of the age, but it's dark blue if anyone can help age it?), so that'll be a starting point... I think that a Pace will need to be a dream for a...

first thoughts.. middleburn RS7 crank? USE Seatpost? Hope or Bullseye Hubs? Mavic ceramic rims? At this point I would just like a list of all suitable exotica that might fit on this frame and I'll work out a build list from the catalogue of wish-list parts!

Hi, I am possibly getting a Kona Explosif frame - not sure of the year, but it's a dark blue, if that helps! It's a medium size, so whilst it might be a little small (I'm 6'1" with a 32" inside leg), I think it's rideable. The big question is, what to build it up with? Should I stick...

Everyone's entitled to their opinion - I started out with a ten-speed MTV from Bromley bikes in about 1988 and moved up through a variety of rigid and hardtail bikes, but until the Giant I'd never had serious money to spend - although I really, really wanted a Kona Explosif, or a cannondale...

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'd love to find out more about this bike, as I'd love to get one made one day - I was thinking about a hard-tail version with Pace RC35s, too...

Re: I think people misunderstood me... This is precisely what I was asking - how do people define it, because it's certainly just not down to age. I think the Morgan analogy is a good one - it can be brand new, but it's retro if it's made in a traditional way that's been widely superceded in...

I was just genuine curiosity to see how people classified things, really. I'm in my 30s, married with a kid so I'm past the time I needed to impress girls! I just appreciate craftsmanship - the giant is superb at what it does and so competent i'd never sell it, but that Swallow Griffon or...

I think people misunderstood me... I'm not saying my Giant has to be "retro" - in fact, given how little thi gs have moved on, it's still totally modern. What I wanted to know is, if a ten year old bike is not retro over just its age, whilst a newer bike can be because the company went bust or...

Genuinely I am trying to work out the criteria people are using as there are bikes on here that are ostensibly the same spec/era...so it can't be that...nor is it a hard-tail/rigid-only thing... nor is it about brand, although there is something snobbish in play. I love my bike - I don't...

Any ideas on the details of how to get hold of the guy who made/makes those frames? That link said someone here had tracked the company down...?

I'd also say that the fact the design came out ten years ago, yet the Giant XC full-sus you buy today is only fractionally different, whilst half the industry is ripping-off its rear suspension design means that it's actually quite important - at the time most XC full sussers suffered horribly...

That was kind of my point - she's a decade old, but to be honest I haven't seen anything new that blew me away - it might have a half inch more travel, or be half a pound lighter, but it's not like when we went from steel to alu, or from alu to carbon, or when we went from rigid to suspension...

Yep it's still a beautiful as I remember - that's been my dream rigid bike for about twenty years! In fact, add a set of Pace RC35s and it's my dream hard-tail, too! Just needs a set of Onza Porcumpine Whites to finish off that pimped look...

I am more than happy to - I'd love the Swallow that MBUK used to review Campagnolo's Centaur groupset... or at a push a kona explosif in white, (with pace RC35 fork, just to be different), or a Pace RC100/RC200. I just need to persuade the wife that I need a rigid or hard-tail bike as well -...

Fair enough - I only asked as there are Trek OCLVs being touted as retro that are of an age... :-)