The Rumpfy Collection. Current Muses

[rumpfy]

I hearby nominate rumpfy as Retrobike's " Style Guru. "

Ha!


Thanks.

 

[rumpfy]

I hope you have good insurance as i would be scared to go out if i owned all them

Quietly tucked away and heavily locked. Insured, alarmed.

 

[rumpfy]

Great collection there, Eric.

Steve Potts frame has a great finish, but that Goat... :shock: :shock: ... that´s something...

Amber Psycho´s look right with that green. Beautiful color scheme...

Thanks!

 

[cherrybomb]

Excellent collection, almost a museum full.

The only one's I'm not sure about are the Potts bikes. I know they are very desirable and beautifully put together but I can't learn to like the geometry of the frame. Interesting that the Salsa from the same period has the much more compact frame design that we're all so used to seeing these days.

Very cool dood.

have you ever ridden one of those old geometry bikes? they rip singletrack, bomb downhill, do everything right. long chainstays rock! it gives a short wheelbase bike all the stability it needs to bomb fireroads. it gives superb balance on technical hardcore singletrack..
not to mention the sublime potts rigid fork.
i take those bikes over anything modern.

Yup. I've ridden bikes with the more relaxed geometry, early UK bikes copied the NorCal design. The Potts are beautifully made it's just the geometry doesn't suit my taste.

I just wish I lived somewhere with the kind of trails they suited, this little old island isn't famous for it's fireroad or hard pack :roll:

 

[albatros38]

What a nice collection :shock:

Superb MountainGoat and Ritchey :roll:

 

[Kestonian]

Superb collection! Thank you for sharing them. Seeing things like this just makes me want to keep buying more bikes ...

One question though - in the picture with all the bikes in a line, what's keeping them standing up?!

 

[Augustus]

Salsa for me.

Great collection.

 

[Agency_Scum]

For me, if I weren't built like a giraffe, I'd take the beautiful Ritchey.

 

[Carlos the Slackal]

More pics of the Otis Guy, please...!

 

[dekerfintheshed]

That is a true collector's collection, all are a thing of beauty (except, dare I say, the Slingshot, still don't get the concept)
The Salsa and both Potts stand out to me most but I'd happily throw a leg over any of 'em...
Looking at the relaxed geometry from the 80's kit also makes me realise I need to get my Fisher HKEK built up very soon too