velomaniac
MacRetro Rider
The truley good modern bike rider is good but the mediocre to awful seem ok on modern bikes that absorb your failings. I refer to suspension as incompetence dampers and when I'm not on top form I need this. Old bikes required you to be as good as you could be because they left little margin for error.
My favourite quote from modern bikers to old is:
Q: 'Why are you not wearing armour ?'
A: 'Because I'm not going to crash !'
We ride well (IMHO, so far from Gospel) because we attended the school of very hard knocks and dont ride beyond our ability as the bike will not soak up our mistakes, but we still get it wrong as my friend ZZ discovered in Aviemore. Getting it wrong without the skill on a modern bike at greater speed could well have been fatal !
My favourite quote from modern bikers to old is:
Q: 'Why are you not wearing armour ?'
A: 'Because I'm not going to crash !'
We ride well (IMHO, so far from Gospel) because we attended the school of very hard knocks and dont ride beyond our ability as the bike will not soak up our mistakes, but we still get it wrong as my friend ZZ discovered in Aviemore. Getting it wrong without the skill on a modern bike at greater speed could well have been fatal !