They psychology of change
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Spankyfart
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What am I missing, I thought you just built your one bike to ride?
Takingabreak
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I thought he had just built two of his "one bike to ride"
Spankyfart
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a twofer. The madness. 
doctor-bond
Feature Bike
Sell everything and build one those why you still can (advice not just to Tooty but all of us …)
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Same issue. Buy gates. Ah but if not depart from period build and enjoy.
Be creative. Make it work. They grow on you when they give back the pleasure of comfortable riding.
Be creative. Make it work. They grow on you when they give back the pleasure of comfortable riding.
Takingabreak
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loving that bike
Its Its nothing to do with a lack of bikes! I doubt any of us have that issue
. Though I do have far far less than I ever had. Im down to a total of 7.....one of which im about to sell.Its purely an issue surrounding two " period" bikes I own, that I can't ride as the geometry is killing me, but I can't bring myself to alter them to make them more comfortable, as they have a great degree of sentimental value to me. Part of that sentiment is in the look and design.
However, after a couple of comments above, im going to jdi the job, better to ride them and think they are a bit weird looking, than not ride them, just because they are not exactly as I "feel" they should be.
Im not prepared to sell them (not a chance after 35 years + of ownership) or hang them on the wall as an annoying reminder of an age gone by!
As for the new bike! I dont actually ride retro every day, i mostly ride a 2007 abomination of a touring hybrid. However, again, as my riding life shortens, i think i might like to try a new one.....and that all the justification i (or any if us) should need for that!
I haven't bought a new bike since 07...think it might be time!Plus, if we all bought a new bike, maybe it might help save the industry....let alone our backs, knees amd necks.
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I know this issue.. my original kona is actually pretty well specced and restored, lives in my office at work.
It's early nineties and I am 44 i can't ride 19" frames, and 120 long stems really but I can't bring myself to change it, I bought a last of the steel canti brake explosifs as a new frame 25 years ago, and built a slightly more back friendly version..
I ride the Kileaua to the pub in the summer, occasionally run a work errand, but maybe 20 mins at the time and I love it in these short doses.
I have room currently and I have a dozen bikes of various kinds.. so I say keep an old bike as a nostalgia trip, if you are able is fine.
Do you back a favour and lo get rides etc. In so.ething a little more in tune with your needs?
It's early nineties and I am 44 i can't ride 19" frames, and 120 long stems really but I can't bring myself to change it, I bought a last of the steel canti brake explosifs as a new frame 25 years ago, and built a slightly more back friendly version..
I ride the Kileaua to the pub in the summer, occasionally run a work errand, but maybe 20 mins at the time and I love it in these short doses.
I have room currently and I have a dozen bikes of various kinds.. so I say keep an old bike as a nostalgia trip, if you are able is fine.
Do you back a favour and lo get rides etc. In so.ething a little more in tune with your needs?
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