Retrobike resolutions 2025?

[al-onestare]

In my experience, goals should be structured around:

Process
Performance, followed by
Outcomes

There're more attainable that way. So saying "selling more stuff" is the outcome. What's the process and performance goals that'll get you there? Perhaps and for example:

I will review/go through my spares/projects and decide what to sell
I will complete this by March 2025
I will publish the for sale items/ebay listings in April 2025

On that basis and following 2024's successes my goals are:

I will continue to develop and build my core strength
I will maintain and develop my turbo trainer and yoga activities around my existing exercise/regime
I will complete the 2025 SWXC series and improve on my 2024 results: lap times/duration/positions

Doing this ultimately meets my objective to keep on riding, enjoy and develop my riding confidence and skills, and keep me actively engaged with biking

 

[JRGSXR]

1, Sell, sell, sell… at least 3 bikes (MacB, Kilauea, Zaskar) and ALL! The stuff I’m never going to use. I’m drowning in wheels! Handy to have but a pain to store.

2, No more buying retro stuff (I have all I ever wanted)

3, Try to get out on more Macretro rides.

4, if I achieve this I might treat myself to a full suss 29er eMTB

Merry Xmas and a happy new year to you all when it comes. J

 

[fguki]

3 bikes? ....wow. Thats sweet :-D So, done in one week ? :-D

 

[Cloverleaf]

In my experience, goals should be structured around:

Process
Performance, followed by
Outcomes

This is a forum for escaping the real world, not setting goals like we're in an annual performance review, I have to do enough of them in the real world every year! Let us lead our lives of talking nonsense and setting goals that will never happen!

That said, I have two;

The first is to finish the little detail bits of the bikes I've almost finished, and get the last few frames built and then go through all the bits I have left, keep my original spares and get rid of everything else. Given that these bikes aren't going to be for riding with a few exceptions, and certainly not to the degree I will need lots of spares, it doesn't make sense to keep the ones I'm not attached to.

The other, and in contrast to what I just said about goal setting @al-onestare, is to finally move out the shitty, sorry, city. This is hopefully the end of a plan I started working towards place six, nearly seven years ago but which I wasn't in a position to really do. I now am, or at least close enough that I can pull the trigger and work the rest out later (the 300 mile round trip commute will be a bit of a bitch but I can deal with it a few times a month). The biggest challenge remaining here is finding somewhere far enough away from people and with enough space to build a proper 3-4 car workshop with space for the cars so I can make a start on building the MG Midget shell up I've had sat there for years (a multi year project in itself, I still don't know what engine's going in it). That way I can have the two fun cars in there, the bikes/kayaks/skis etc, and still have enough space to be able to have workbenches set up for actually doing stuff. The workshop might not be a 2025 thing, but moving absolutely has to be. It'll put me closer to the mountains so I'm not driving hundreds of miles every weekend, and closer to the people I actually want to hang out with, city people in the main just depress me (and when I say city people I mean people who love the bright lights and consumerism, rather than people who love the outdoors but have to live in the city).

 

[JRGSXR]

Going by the way things seem to be selling just now it may take me longer than 2025 to move the bikes/stuff on.

 

[fguki]

meanwhile ...a beautiful KLEIN Adroit in sunburst sold FAST FAST FAST for 6.800k

It all depends on how much shaite you have stockpiled in your garage. People tend to collect 25x scrap-metal instead of 4 superb high class bikes they always wanted with all the freat parts they always dreamt of

I shifted long ago to Klein high class, Merlin Titanium, FUNK Alloy and FUNK titanium, Marin Titanium or Marin Titanium FRS - and got rid of all that other $75,00 crap.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

meanwhile ...a beautiful KLEIN Adroit in sunburst sold FAST FAST FAST for 6.800k

It all depends on how much shaite you have stockpiled in your garage. People tend to collect 25x scrap-metal instead of 4 superb high class bikes they always wanted with all the freat parts they always dreamt of

I shifted long ago to Klein high class, Merlin Titanium, FUNK Alloy and FUNK titanium, Marin Titanium or Marin Titanium FRS - and got rid of all that other $75,00 crap.

I love my £75 crap

 

[Tomac23]

Finish the rebuild of my old race bike (which was stolen back in the day) and ride it at Malvern next summer. Anything else would be bonus

 

[MarinMartin]

After 4 years of waiting there's finally a 24hr race at Newnham Park again in 2025 so I'm going to be there. That's my one goal that I want to dedicate myself to. To do it in memory of my friend and achieve the target I never managed. Been a long battle against my health and my mind (considering in 2020 and 2021 I thought I might not be able to ride again after the accident) but I want to prove that I can come back stronger.

 

[The History Man]

Get one now. No more safety goggles.