They psychology of change

[Tootyred]

Thanks everbody...if nothing else its all food for thought and has spurred me on to at least go back into the workshop and think....rather than avoid a different issue.

 

[Spankyfart]

What am I missing, I thought you just built your one bike to ride?

 

[Takingabreak]

What am I missing, I thought you just built your one bike to ride?

I thought he had just built two of his "one bike to ride"

 

[Spankyfart]

a twofer. The madness.

 

[doctor-bond]

That yellow bike looks pretty cool! I am looking for a new bike option, but the issue is my couple of much loved and long owned bikes more than anything else.

Very wise advice.

Sounds like you need to make some trade-offs. What is more important, looks/comfort/retro aesthetic, etc?

My advice is to have/build a bike that you actually want to ride and will be comfortable for the terrain you ride on.

If that means embracing a more upright riding position/larger wheels, etc., then give it a go. Better to have a bike you want to ride than a bike that might look better but which you hesitate to use.

Could also be a chance to try something more modern?
Large frame, long steerer tube, steel, cantilevers, 80’s MTB aesthetic… modern… Rivendell as an example.

Sell everything and build one those why you still can (advice not just to Tooty but all of us …)

 

[The History Man]

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.

 

[Takingabreak]

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.

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loving that bike

 

[Tootyred]

What am I missing, I thought you just built your one bike to ride?

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.

 

[al]

I don't like it.

al.

 

[enigma]

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 cha get it, I bought a last of the steel can't brake explosions as a new frame 25 Yr gonorrhea so 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?