Modern stuff on retro bikes

[Lid]

This has become exactly the same situation as in the early American street rodding scene. There are two camps. The first camp is trying to rebuild/recreat the exact original bike/car. Era correct.
Or people who are taking old bangers and repainting/rebuilding/redesigning them using parts that are applicable. Ie I am going to drop this Chevy V8 into this dropped 32 Highboy...
Or I am going to put this Roo Bar on my Slingshot.

Google Boyd Coddington and then think about how you are going to rebuild your bike.

This to me is far more exciting than recreating a race bike that I never raced on?!?!?

 

[cherrybomb]

in their view 'retro' means something newly-designed that imitates the style of something from a bygone time - i.e., by their definition, there are no retro bikes on Retrobike.

Personally, I think they have a point, there's a lot of confusion between 'vintage' and 'retro' but when it boils down to it, does it really matter? :?

Retrobike was a far more laid-back place where anything goes and members were generally supportive of other members' efforts, and that this was a bad thing as it led to lax standards.

..........and this is a load of tosh! :roll:

 

[cce]

i run parts that predate my frame, and parts that postdate it. just like i did BITD, making a bike that rides how i want it to, within my budget.

 

[Anthony]

in their view 'retro' means something newly-designed that imitates the style of something from a bygone time - i.e., by their definition, there are no retro bikes on Retrobike.

Personally, I think they have a point, there's a lot of confusion between 'vintage' and 'retro' but when it boils down to it, does it really matter? :?

Sure it matters whether there are no retro bikes on Retrobike! By that definition, we’d have to call this site Oldbike instead. Retro literally means 'back' and it’s generally used to mean 'harks back to the past', so it can mean new, but it can be anything new or old, that harks back to a previous era.

That’s why a 90s frame with totally original kit is retro, but so is the same frame with some modern kit, provided the overall style of the bike is similar to a previous era. But if you trick up an old frame to look modern and hang all modern kit on it, so that the overall impression is of something modern, then that isn’t a retro bike IMO.

 

[cherrybomb]

Sure it matters whether there are no retro bikes on Retrobike!

No it doesn't. Your on here, I'm on here, there's loads of other folk on here. We all like 'basically' the same things, whether you think they should be called vintage, retro or old.

In the end we're just arguing over a word. Life's too short dude.

 

[Pickle]

I use whatever works

I have modern Rock Shox Dart forks plus a Race Face Prodigy stem on my RTS, and then I have a period KORE stem, GT flat bar, Vetta saddle and WTB tyre on my Avalanche Expert.

 

[Anthony]

In the end we're just arguing over a word. Life's too short dude.

But what we mean by retro is what the thread's about dude.

And BTW I'm not a dude. I'm far too retro to be a dude. :shock:

 

[Pickle]

I'm far too retro to be a dude. :shock:

Squire then

 

[cherrybomb]

In the end we're just arguing over a word. Life's too short dude.

But what we mean by retro is what the thread's about dude.

And BTW I'm not a dude. I'm far too retro to be a dude. :shock:

OK

 

[kaiser]

Personally I like modtro for something new but designed with a nudge to the past and retro being things that are more iconic, be they old or new. I.e. a new mini is modtro but a duallit toaster is retro.


p.s. someone tell me modtro is a word and I haven't just made it up.