Retrobike resolutions 2025?

[sick-lizard]

Not many goals this year... number one is, get a job so I can buy all the shiny bits everyone seems to be wanting to get rid of during the next year....

 

[al-onestare]

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).

I lead a PMO for a living. How else do you think I get things done? Nothing drives me more potty than unattainable, wishy-washy objectives!

Good luck with the move. It sounds exciting. Virtual fist-bump on the driver's for moving. Pretty much the same for us a few years back.

 

[The History Man]

Procure Monkey Organs?

 

[al-onestare]

Procure Monkey Organs?

Sometimes

 

[BlackCat]

This more or less annual thread always makes me smile. To summarise, each year, almost everyone wants to a) ride more, b) complete more builds and c) reduce bikes / parts inventory…

… and yet somehow, when the annual
2025 reckoning takes place, almost each and every one of us will have a) rode less, b) completed fewer builds but c) acquired TONS more bikes and parts. Just like last year. And the one before.

In about 50 NYE’s time there will be just one RBer left in the whole world. He will never ride. He will never build.

He will just own every single bike and part we all currently have in our sheds.

Happy New Year, all!

 

[velomentary]

For me it's a 3 = Free rule

1 modern all rounder gravel/urban/tour/trail bike with as best a geometry I can get in an affordable bike not breaking banks.

1 retro ATB tourer with a more mountain bike set up with potential deliberately less gears to just push me into a day ride - pub stop - picky tea kind of thing.

1 retro/classic road bike to just nip about on - maybe single speed it for just getting around.

And that's it.

Then start leaving the internet in a cupboard as long as some bike frames have been at the back of sheds and enjoy cycling.

 

[wynne]

I turned 50 in 2024. I have never had a ponytail. 2025 will be the year of the tragic middle-aged pony tail for me. Possibly morphing into the tragic middle-aged mullet towards the summer.

 

[Tootyred]

I had one for 40+ years...changed last year to a shorter cut. Its worth a go!

 

[CTK]

Yep I am exactly as above

I would like to ride more.

I am in the process of clearing out but I always end up buying more.

I want to do a proper restoration! We'll see

Oh and turn my man cave into a boy cave for my teen/tweens to have mates around

 

[Spanky22b]

Mines a weird one because i actually want to buy more bikes this year because there's always room in the Kona sanctuary
I'd love to find a 93 Kona Hei Hei a 1993 Kona Hot and a few Kona Explosifs and some Kilaueas
Also i'm building my 94 Kona AA up a bit like a 4cross bike and i'm going to get out on it and thrash the thing