rBoTM June 2015 - Nominations Pease!!!

[gridno27]

Hi - it's a Replica of the 1996 Giro D'Italia winner bike - But what's means Retro?

I think the line between a Classic bike mostly made of brazed steel tubes and muffles and a Youngtimer will become more fluent year by year.
The Saeco Cannondale CAAD3 will be now in 2015 called a Youngtimer with potential to become a Classic, it's nearly 20 years old but it has been a mile stone in road racing probikes made of alloy and coming from US

Cannondale from US start with it to show their technical competence in an European dominated Procycling ... other US companies has been followed and today ...

 

[bigdave]

For me down tube shifters and toe clips define a retro bike.

For sure as time moves on things change.

Do the site owners have a definition?

 

[Spokesmann]

Id love to see the entries actually resting on the ground... :facepalm:

 

[roadking]

Id love to see the entries actually resting on the ground... :facepalm:

+1 agreed,

I would also like to see cranks in the horizontal position and no incomplete bicycles. Personally it is a great shame there are so few bicycles that have been in long term ownership - instead of,"look what I've bought".

I don't see fine craftsman made bicycles as mere commodities, they represent something special (that something could mean many things) that's been largely lost. Every bicycle I own has a history; either mine, because I bought it new, or a relatives or close friend (because they bought it new).

And surely, and I have never liked the term retro (e.g a 1970s bike is not retro, but a modern copy of a 70s bike is), but if it has any meaning at all then surely the cut off point is..?

I'd suggest 1989, the last golden age of cycling (certainly from a pro racing point of view).

Jon.

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[Spokesmann]

Jon - I concur entirely!

 

[bigdave]

And surely, and I have never liked the term retro (e.g a 1970s bike is not retro, but a modern copy of a 70s bike is), but if it has any meaning at all then surely the cut off point is..?

I'd suggest 1989, the last golden age of cycling (certainly from a pro racing point of view).

Jon.

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If you don't like the term retro then this website must be an annoyance.

The L'Eroica definition of an old, retro, vintage bike seems reasonable to me.

 

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[Spokesmann]

Calm down dear.

 

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[stevevw]

Re:

stevevw's Viscount Aerospace Pro mid 70's

Dura-Ace 1st Gen Black Group.

Before and during Eroica Britannia.