The retro effect on the bike scene

[Wold Ranger]

Having been on the "scene" an embarrasingly long time now, I'm cheered to see a lot of the bike mags starting to question many of the modern developments! Viz a Viz Flat bars are now the latest move (God forbid), V brakes are lighter and far more user serviceable than discs(last months MBR, who cite 60 percent of all service enquiries are for disc brake reliability problems!!) Tubeless tyres are a waste of time (this months MBUK! Just too much trouble!- ever tried mending a trailside flat with them!) What goes around comes around eh?

 

[Pickle]

What goes around comes around eh?

Indeed.


And I agree on the disk brake thing. When I had a modern bike, just before embracing the retro scene fully, I had nothing but squeeky horrors with them.

 

[Jay]

i must say my new(retro) cross country bike will be a disk free bike,

And to be fair i think week in we all prove the old stuff can still cut it with the new stuff,

If it aint broke dnt fix it

 

[Bike Hoarder]

People will be wearing fluro next!!

 

[IDB1]

People will be wearing fluro next!!

Waddya mean next??

 

[Splatter Paint]

Somebody gave me a bike mag a few months ago, which had bikes with fluro paint (Marin?) and shock-horror, one with a splatter paint job!

My latest modern build has v-brakes instead of discs and I'm considering flat bars too. It is definitely influenced by my other retro steeds.

Tubeless was always a stupid idea....

SP

 

[FSR-Si]

Damn it, Ive only just changed from flats to risers :twisted:

 

[tintin40]

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Tubeless was always a stupid idea....

SP

For us MTBers and non pro riders who don't have a team car following to give you anther wheel. So true

In the real world inner tubes are a good idea. And as for some of the other 'new' ideas that make a MTB look like a moto-x bike. Just because it works on them doesn't mean it's good for us.

Long live the MTB as i knew it - 26'' wheels and is a cycle.

 

[Andy R]

Somebody gave me a bike mag a few months ago, which had bikes with fluro paint (Marin?) and shock-horror, one with a splatter paint job!

My latest modern build has v-brakes instead of discs and I'm considering flat bars too. It is definitely influenced by my other retro steeds.

Tubeless was always a stupid idea....

SP

So I suppose that your next modern car will have drum brakes and tubed tyres?

Flat bars or risers - obviously that's all down to preference (as is everything, of course) but the simple fact is that disc brakes work and are consistently reliable. Using rim brakes for period authenticity's sake is one thing but to build up a "modern" bike with less efficient components - well, I just don't get it.
Name one aspect of V brakes that is superior to disc brakes, because I can't think of a single one.

As I've said (several times) before - in my opinion disc brakes were the best thing ever to happen to mountain bikes. Better than suspension and better than tubeless tyres , just as they were for trials, enduro and motocross bikes a few years earlier.

 

[utahdog2003]

Next goofus fad to die a quick quiet death in the back alley of cycle-dom...29ers and 650B crap. :roll: What a joke. You want to roll over an obstacle easily?... get a 2.35 front tire and keep your 26 inch wheels, then you can actually borrow a tube from somebody if you flat!