M-Power
Old School Grand Master
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Yeah....by the time you had specced up a fully blinged Ti bike back in those those days, it was the same money as a decent family car ~ £5/6k That was a huge amount of a working persons annual income back then, far less so now proportionally.
24pouces":2wb0hx66 said:Got many bikes in all material in my collection : steel, aluminum, carbon and titanium. In the end of 80ies, I fall in love for Cannondale and, if they were expensive, I could easily reach my goal in 1991. I discovered titanium that year and then, a Merlin Titanium became my main wish and graal for an ultimate bike and I had to wait 15 years for owning oneM-Power":2wb0hx66 said:I can remember the magical effect Ti had on people who looked at and hefted the first bikes back in the late 80s and early 90s. .
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Yeah....by the time you had specced up a fully blinged Ti bike back in those those days, it was the same money as a decent family car ~ £5/6k That was a huge amount of a working persons annual income back then, far less so now proportionally.