What classifies a mtb to be retro ?

[mudokon]

Pretty sure a Raleigh firefly falls into the WDS category??

nope 21" frame , and deffo not a girly coloured bike, albeit a beginners mtb.
Done me proud for last 3 years almost and helped me get fit after i had a brain haemhorrage.

I would like to upgrade as i have a million hills here in darwen and it onlyhas 18 speed and weighs a ton but dont have a huge budget.

 

[mikee]

WDS is i think latin
literal translation is , "they were common once but not so now "

as the emperor nero once said in a hundred years those christians will be
WDS

well thats the gist of it

 

[cornholio's RC200]

WDS is i think latin
literal translation is , "they were common once but not so now "

as the emperor nero once said in a hundred years those christians will be
WDS

well thats the gist of it

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

retro is a state of mind

 

[JeRkY]

What makes an MTB retro?

The cut of it's jib.

 

[Matthews]

Depends on if you're into building new bikes (NOS) from a collection of bits and putting them on a pedestal to admire and calling it retro or getting an old bike out and keeping it working and using it for what its sole purpose is, riding it , as for a fixed year cut off date I think thats ludicrous but hey we all have different opinions.
I'll now go away and hide in a hole :roll:

 

[legrandefromage]

There is a genrally agreed cut off date as that is when big business took over, rogered it sensless and stole its inocence.

 

[petitpal]

There is a genrally agreed cut off date as that is when big business took over, rogered it sensless and stole its inocence.

That's a mental image I didn't need for my Thursday afternoon

 

[Matthews]

There is a genrally agreed cut off date as that is when big business took over, rogered it sensless and stole its inocence.

Surely big business started in the early 90's as I can remember having a vast choice of bikes from many manufacturers even back then ranging from Townsend's to the likes of Klien, I was uming and aring as to what to replace my 2nd hand Raliegh Mustang (that broke something every-time out) for many a week and looking round the vast array of choices at the much more prolific number of LBS's back in late 90/91 before buying the MF so I can't grasp how it wasn't already big business, it became big business as soon as a couple of the large Yank firms started mass producing which was in the 80's AFAIAW.
Matthew

 

[Russell]

Big business started in the early 80s when Sinyard realised he could make a few quid getting bikes mass produced in Japan to flog back home.