silverclaws
Senior Retro Guru
An e-stay, lovely, perfect for British ground conditions, I will look out for one, and possibly transfer my current XT and Suntour mix to it, or for the first time try out maguras. That black e-stay that is around here somewhere is ideal, (I have always had black bikes, black has a timeless style of it's own).
No worries about basic tubing and stuff, I believe the snobbery about it all is just that, snobbery, an edge a manufacturer can get over another manufacturer, if you riding to break it, should you, more likely break yourself, if special steel breaks, what force is being applied, are you going to walk away from it, I think cycling is about self preservation as much as fun.
Just as long as a frame has not the weight and feel of an old wrought iron gate, it is good enough for me. Just thinking the bike I have been using for the last three years, an old Raleigh Attitude mtb 'style' bike is just that, a wrought iron gate with wheels.
Hmmmm, an artistic idea old bike frames as gates, or welded into a gate frame, I will think more on that, as I am supposed to be thinking about installation art for college, with a view to creating a steel land sculpture.
No worries about basic tubing and stuff, I believe the snobbery about it all is just that, snobbery, an edge a manufacturer can get over another manufacturer, if you riding to break it, should you, more likely break yourself, if special steel breaks, what force is being applied, are you going to walk away from it, I think cycling is about self preservation as much as fun.
Just as long as a frame has not the weight and feel of an old wrought iron gate, it is good enough for me. Just thinking the bike I have been using for the last three years, an old Raleigh Attitude mtb 'style' bike is just that, a wrought iron gate with wheels.
Hmmmm, an artistic idea old bike frames as gates, or welded into a gate frame, I will think more on that, as I am supposed to be thinking about installation art for college, with a view to creating a steel land sculpture.