Some young turk over on STW is dissing the retro coolness of old bikes. Justice needs to be done. Why I bet his gears work and the geometry of his bike is correct. I bet his *spits* modern road bike weighs less than 11kg. too.
He's just jealous. Recline in the glory that is retrobike and just let his b*llsh$t was over you. Remember, how's he supposed to use 27 gears when he can't count above 10 without taking his shoes off
He's just pissed off that some over weight middle aged bloke with a beard overtook him on a black graded downhill on Saturday at Innerleithen on a Repack style Schwinn Klunker. He would have been gutted if he knew we did Glentress as a warm up!
Laugh? I nearly wet my Brooks B72
Some bikes are just shit and some just don't suit the riders style/application. It really has nothing to do with age.
Like all forms of stereotyping, it's all down to ignorance and 'beliefs'.
Essentially Humans are stupid and hate each other and will find any reason to set themselves apart from others who do not share their world view. Of course the real problem is that we can't just accept that some people are differant, we have to goad and sneer and ultimately destroy what we don't understand because of this stupidity.
Refer him to that Probike(?) Procycling(?) article, that "proved" the superiority of modern bikes with a 3% increase in power output for bikes 3 decades apart...
He's just jealous. Recline in the glory that is retrobike and just let his b*llsh$t was over you. Remember, how's he supposed to use 27 gears when he can't count above 10 without taking his shoes off