Is this retro?

[cybertrophic]

I current ride one of these:

Although mine's got a carbon Easton Monkey Bar instead of the stock flat job. Cost me £1100 out of my first set of non-student wages, too! At points I have owned cars that were worth less...

I have to say that I've never ridden a full susser that has felt so like a hard-tail - I've ridden a few single pivot bikes that felt like they'd snapped in the middle and my best mate's Trek V bike is frankly awful...

So, at 9 years old, is this beauty now retro?

Part of me would love to stick a set of Pace RC36 EVO IIIs or a high-end Rock Shox fork on her, to match the SID Air shck on the back, but as a bike to hack around the single track on, she's light enough, has survived a few tosses and inspires confidence.

Since getting back on the MTB after a fair while off (commuting on my eBay-bargain Giant carbon road bike, etc), I have really enjoyed rediscovering the joys of riding the rough stuff with this lovely old girl - I can't ever see myself buying another full-sus bike unless something terrible happens, but I am certainly looking to put a rigid/hardtail retro steed together at some point soon!

Just thought I'd share the love [/img]

 

[Tallpaul]

No.

 

[bojangle]

Sorry NO!

 

[cybertrophic]

Sorry NO!

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

 

[legrandefromage]

its a bicycle, you're riding it, thats ok in my book.

but, as punishment, buy something pre 1993 to atone for your sins

oh and 3 hail thumbshifters before bed.

Rev. LGF

 

[Enid_Puceflange]

Read the thread on my
98 Cannondale Sv700 , link in my sig below.
What a rukkus that caused, it started a whole new subsection!

Gc

 

[cybertrophic]

its a bicycle, you're riding it, thats ok in my book.

but, as punishment, buy something pre 1993 to atone for your sins

oh and 3 hail thumbshifters before bed.

Rev. LGF

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 - she's after trivial things like furniture!

 

[JeRkY]

not retro by any of the many definitions.

 

[6.5x55]

So what is then? Apparently not over 10 yo. How about over 15 yo? Or say, 1995 or before? I'm curious .

 

[lewis1641]

So what is then? Apparently not over 10 yo. How about over 15 yo? Or say, 1995 or before? I'm curious .

depends who you ask. i think pre 97 but others consider my 1999 spec fsr retro.

some people think pre disc brakes. some think pre v's.

retro is more of an attitude than anything else