RetroBike gone quiet..

[Gaddmeister]

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Mmmm....I know? Retro fishing rods? :-D

 

[Silvergoat]

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I have a fine collection of club flyers, beer mats, bottles and tops, I'll have you know Overwhelmingly, it is high end branded roadies, then SS bikes, fixies and hybrids that I see on my travels and commutes. The big chain bike shops demonstrate where the overwhelming demand is too. But I don't want to buy that fancy £3k carbon road twig and wear Sky or Rapha – I'd rather buy one of those old tatty bikes with the chain hanging off it that Evans have been using in advertising displays, encouraging you to trade your old pile of junk from the shed for a new fancy carbon roadie, and restore it. I actually offered to buy the lovely old Kona or Specialised from their display and the Evans gimps just looked bemused. May be they thought I was a dotty old relic. With the old Kona and Specialised displayed next to the new mountain bikes section, it illustrated just how ugly/over engineered the modern day versions look.

 

[cce]

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I have a fine collection of club flyers, beer mats, bottles and tops, I'll have you know Overwhelmingly, it is high end branded roadies, then SS bikes, fixies and hybrids that I see on my travels and commutes. The big chain bike shops demonstrate where the overwhelming demand is too. But I don't want to buy that fancy £3k carbon road twig and wear Sky or Rapha – I'd rather buy one of those old tatty bikes with the chain hanging off it that Evans have been using in advertising displays, encouraging you to trade your old pile of junk from the shed for a new fancy carbon roadie, and restore it. I actually offered to buy the lovely old Kona or Specialised from their display and the Evans gimps just looked bemused. May be they thought I was a dotty old relic. With the old Kona and Specialised displayed next to the new mountain bikes section, it illustrated just how ugly/over engineered the modern day versions look.

The old bikes that got turned in to Evans went to local bike reuse charities. We had ZILLIONS of them at mine, We can hardly move in the workshop for them. It's a great scheme.

 

[ultrazenith]

Once upon a time, in 1993, mountain biking was a minority sport and everybody did XC style riding. Then in 1994 or 1995 it seemed like everybody wanted a decent mountain bike, but the new influx subverted the scene due to being less interested in proper mountain biking and fitness, but into MTBs more for fashion and being seen to do an extreme sport.

Now that the MTB scene is waning again, with the fair weather MTBers and fashionistas going over to road bikes, then I say good. Give us proper mountain bikers back our scene, and well keep riding in the wilds whatever the season, on bikes that can work in mud without needing an expensive service after each ride.

Yes, I do have rose tinted monocles on!

 

[FMJ]

Modern beer mats are better

 

[Gaddmeister]

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Lol!

 

[Silvergoat]

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Cheers!

 

[one-eyed_jim]

The Word Association Game thread is where it's all happening.

 

[brocklanders023]

It has gone a bit quiet on here for sure. My own situation with kids, mortgage etc is prohibitive when it comes to finding time to ride bikes, let alone tinker, fettle and build. I am sitting on a stash of builds that I once had aspirations of completing, but doubt now I will. I still find it hard to let anything go though, just in case that changes, but a garage full of unbuilt bikes and bits is starting to get annoying. I'm still happy with the retro bikes I have built and ready to roll (RTS, STS, Saracen, DBR, Oramge and Dynatech), and also happy with some newer acquisitions (Airnimal Joey, Cannondale CAAD 10 Black inc - Di2 is great when the battery isn't flat, and Pipedream Scion), so it is fair to say I have a mix of old and new.

The banter isn't what it was on the forum, can't quite place why or what is lacking, but there are fewer threads that I fancy jumping in to than there used to be, maybe lots of them are similar to ones that have gone before?

That said, I am still an avid user of the forum, just spend more time reading than replying.

That about covers my situation. Agree with the road bike thing as well.

 

[Silvergoat]

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Growing up, growing older, people moving on, finding other things, other social media, life's travails, more important commitments and priorities in life to deal and less time for passion. May be that initial spark of the Retrobike romance has worn off – the same old threads and perenial questions? Has that initial frisson of excitement from the thrill of chasing and reliving nostalgic dreams fizzled out?

Meanwhile like the gentleman in the photo, "keep spinning!".