So many bike sites seem to loathe "retro". Why?
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Gtpulse
Dyna-Tech Fan
Are you @Mickeyspinn e-bike cousin? I thought he had cornered the market in cool GT repaints!
Mickeyspinn
rBotM Winner
I don't know about cornered.... definitely in my own corner tho.......
Mickeyspinn
rBotM Winner
Like the paint
there's a hint of what I'm planning on my cruiser build there !And yeah bikes....beers...laughs....anyone of those missing something's not right I say!
Yetichaser
Roberts Fan
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For me its partly the nostalgia from the 90s but then when looking for a bike to ride to work, and not wanting to risk having my pride and noy stolen) I looked at modern bikes but just couldn’t get happy with them.
I keep buying and selling retro bikes to find the ‘right’ one for me to keep. I think i’ve found it in the shape of a White Spider and frankly for the price I paid no new bike would come close to the quality and class of the Roberts.
As much as I love Yetis, i’d buy one for my sons when they are a little older but for now they are very content with their retro bikes and there is something very satisfying on giving an old bike a new lease of life.
I’ve said it before, but I think there is something very cool about my sons racing retro mtbs in a field of kids riding modern bikes.
In a similar vein, i’m not that interested in classic car displays, or modern motorsport, but watching historical vehicles being raced is a real treat and I have respect for the owners who risk their vehicles.
I keep buying and selling retro bikes to find the ‘right’ one for me to keep. I think i’ve found it in the shape of a White Spider and frankly for the price I paid no new bike would come close to the quality and class of the Roberts.
As much as I love Yetis, i’d buy one for my sons when they are a little older but for now they are very content with their retro bikes and there is something very satisfying on giving an old bike a new lease of life.
I’ve said it before, but I think there is something very cool about my sons racing retro mtbs in a field of kids riding modern bikes.
In a similar vein, i’m not that interested in classic car displays, or modern motorsport, but watching historical vehicles being raced is a real treat and I have respect for the owners who risk their vehicles.
pw_pw_la
Senior Retro Guru
It's not necessarily about what goes on there right now, or not, tho. It's about what it stands for, and what it has harbored and promoted historically; who was behind it in the first place.
I'm sorry, I just can't give something like that a pass.
If you're letting people livestream murder, and espouse racist and bigoted (as well as, frankly, dangerous) rhetoric under the guise of free speech (while harboring clear delusions of grandeur) you're can pretty much go f&%k yourself 'til the end of time, as far as I am concerned.
I just don't know why anyone would want or need to use that particular platform to discuss bikes and share pictures of them. If that's indeed what the OP was implying.
Disliking Facebook or "mainstream" media corporations over things like privacy and questionable politics and then backing a place like that just seems a little odd, and massively hypocritical, at the very least.
But hey, maybe I'm just a clueless woke snowflake, indoctrinated by the Alt-Left through the brainwashing techniques of the elite global cabal?
It could be that.
Okay, I'm going to go check-out ratrodbikes.com now!
Betsy
Old School Grand Master
^Agreed to some extent..
I don't do social media but I do like forums, it's where you find the true knowledge.. and i like the fact that said knowledge is given away altruistically.. opposed to the current crop of click hungry bloggers.
I've read 4Chan over the years, generally for research* purposes rather than enjoyment, i don't mind it's existence as we've seen with the other Chans internet scuzzbags still need a place to hand out and if it's not there it will only be somewhere else
*for instance the Boogaloo movement? (i'm not talking Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo here) who the f*ck are these hawaiian shirt wearing armed to the teeth f*ckheads i'm seeing on the news? that's the point i reach for 4Chan in a 'know your enemy' kind of way.
I wouldn't socialise there, no matter how nice their bikes/knowledge pool..
If y'all are a bunch of racist, mysoginistic, lgbt hating cnuts who considered it acceptable to post rape vids, animal rekt/torture, shit-porn ect you wouldn't be my kind of peeps... if i'm spending time with people albeit virtually i need to feel affection for them rather than disgust.
I don't do social media but I do like forums, it's where you find the true knowledge.. and i like the fact that said knowledge is given away altruistically.. opposed to the current crop of click hungry bloggers.
I've read 4Chan over the years, generally for research* purposes rather than enjoyment, i don't mind it's existence as we've seen with the other Chans internet scuzzbags still need a place to hand out and if it's not there it will only be somewhere else
*for instance the Boogaloo movement? (i'm not talking Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo here) who the f*ck are these hawaiian shirt wearing armed to the teeth f*ckheads i'm seeing on the news? that's the point i reach for 4Chan in a 'know your enemy' kind of way.
I wouldn't socialise there, no matter how nice their bikes/knowledge pool..
If y'all are a bunch of racist, mysoginistic, lgbt hating cnuts who considered it acceptable to post rape vids, animal rekt/torture, shit-porn ect you wouldn't be my kind of peeps... if i'm spending time with people albeit virtually i need to feel affection for them rather than disgust.
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And here was me thinking you meant Singletrack forum
(or pinkbike)
There are some nice European forums, if you can read them or don’t mind a translator. Good for reading.
MTBR VRC used to be OK, not been for many year.
Many have migrated to, quite annoyingly, some very good Facebook groups.
(or pinkbike)
There are some nice European forums, if you can read them or don’t mind a translator. Good for reading.
MTBR VRC used to be OK, not been for many year.
Many have migrated to, quite annoyingly, some very good Facebook groups.
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pw_pw_la
Senior Retro Guru
Yeah, sure. I get what you’re saying. I get knowing your enemy. But there’s also the argument that one POS racist, homophobic misogynist screaming into the void alone might eventually quieten down, or else perhaps join in discourse with some other non-POS racist homophobic misogynists, who may even enlighten them. Allowing a group of them to yell at each other back-and-forth and egg each other on, within the self-congratulatory infinite feedback loop of other likeminded dickheads certainly isn’t helping them or anybody else. It’s simply amplifying a problem that, of course, has always been there and always existed.
But amplification breeds escalation.
And, okay, sure, let them have a place to go be POS with other POS’s. But why do you or I or anyone need to go look at pictures of bikes there?
I just don’t get it. I don’t back it. And I won’t ever.
Every single click on a place like that is currency and support for the worst fractions of it to continue.
That I think we’d be better off without all forms of social media I’m more than happy to debate; I can see the positives, I can see the appeal. The likes of 4Chan and it’s ilk: literally no one is better off thanks to it, and even if somehow they were, it still wouldn’t be worth the trade-off.
This isn’t hypothetical. It’s not subjective. These are places that are encouraging and causing real problems and real harm, in the real world.
Go tell a mother who lost their kid in a school shooting that was actively encouraged on a place like that that you only frequent it to look at the nice bikes.
pw_pw_la
Senior Retro Guru
That wasn’t meant as a personal attack on anyone. By the way.
I’m just passionate about certain things pertaining to digital life.
But I certainly don’t mean to hijack an otherwise positive thread about how rad it is to talk about and share bikes on the internet!
So yeah, I’ll move on.
It does seem annoying that Facebook hijackerd a once thriving vintage forum scene. Much like how Instagram hijacked a once thriving real world experience!
What happened to MTBR? It really is just a case of everyone switching to posting on Instagram and Facebook?
Bummer.
I like long threads; lots of pictures; lots of words. I like learning, talking. Not just looking at and liking pictures.
I’m just passionate about certain things pertaining to digital life.
But I certainly don’t mean to hijack an otherwise positive thread about how rad it is to talk about and share bikes on the internet!
So yeah, I’ll move on.
It does seem annoying that Facebook hijackerd a once thriving vintage forum scene. Much like how Instagram hijacked a once thriving real world experience!
What happened to MTBR? It really is just a case of everyone switching to posting on Instagram and Facebook?
Bummer.
I like long threads; lots of pictures; lots of words. I like learning, talking. Not just looking at and liking pictures.
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