What do you hate seeing on a gorgeous retro bike?

[unkleGsif]

Troll.

If threads like this put anyone off 'retrobiking', then they're taking it all a bit too seriously.

nice...
back-atchya :roll:

if you read the post, you will have realised I was talking about the site, not the act of riding an old bike

G

 

[elPedro666]

Unka G, get out on a ride with us and feel the RB NW love...

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I'm not sure I've made that sound appealing

 

[feetabix]

Minge......

 

[Russell]

if you read the post, you will have realised I was talking about the site, not the act of riding an old bike

To which my reposte would be that... 'you're taking it all a bit too seriously'.

 

[Neil]

Troll.

If threads like this put anyone off 'retrobiking', then they're taking it all a bit too seriously.

nice...
back-atchya :roll:

if you read the post, you will have realised I was talking about the site, not the act of riding an old bike

G

Russell's point is well made - it's one thread, there may be strong subjective opinions on aesthetics, but all the same, it's one thread, in one forum - hardly a dominant theme to the place.

 

[thecannibal]

Risers for me, especially on long stems, so daft and pointless.

Aren't riser bars kind of the opposite of pointless? As in they have a totally self-evident and rational 'point'?

My pet peeves are Fat Blokes in Lycra™, retro-for-the-sake-of-retro dodgy component choices (eg. flexstems), modern bar/brake lever set-up on vintage road bikes (levers up high, drops rotated back), obsessive retro-adherence (tubes, rim tape, grease...) and wrong size bikes because getting that model was more important than getting a rideable bike.

 

[jax13]

rasta ano is my love or hate thing.

rasta done properly on the right frame can look ace, done badly on the wrong frame it looks hideous.

not a big fan of...

mismatchded groupsets without reason. e.g declaring that in your experience an xt front mech shifts the same as an xtr & the weight saving of xtr doesn't merit the ££ difference is fair enough, running xt rear & lx fronts because it was what you had lying around doesn't cut it for a build you want to be proud of.

mismatched finishing kit without good reason is another thing that irks me. don't use a polished ritchey crank, ano use seatpost, black syncros stem & a slightly different shade ano pace bar on a build. it just doesn't look right.

the only exception to both of these is on an old ratty rider that has been thrown together & thrashed within an inch of its life.

things i'd never willingly use & i think look wrong on a bike are gripshift, turbo saddles & fat slicks. (i understand skinny ones for commuting purposes or hybrids for that matter but fat slicks should be reserved for SS cruiser mtb builds only... which i actually quite like!)

 

[elPedro666]

Risers for me, especially on long stems, so daft and pointless.

Aren't riser bars kind of the opposite of pointless? As in they have a totally self-evident and rational 'point'?

They do exactly the same job as getting the right stem rise, except weigh more, make bar-ends a no-no and take up control space on the bars - utterly pointless marketing-led 'upgrade' that the world and his dog apparently bought into. Less so with the classy folks around here of course

I've got a similar beef with OS 31.8mm on XC bikes, but best leave that for another day!

 

[thecannibal]

things i'd never willingly use & i think look wrong on a bike are gripshift, turbo saddles...

Really? Turbos look wrong even on old Yetis? Sacrebleu!

 

[thecannibal]

Risers for me, especially on long stems, so daft and pointless.

Aren't riser bars kind of the opposite of pointless? As in they have a totally self-evident and rational 'point'?

They do exactly the same job as getting the right stem rise, except weigh more, make bar-ends a no-no and take up control space on the bars - utterly pointless marketing-led 'upgrade' that the world and his dog apparently bought into. Less so with the classy folks around here of course

I've got a similar beef with OS 31.8mm on XC bikes, but best leave that for another day!

So do risers look worse than absurdly high-rise stems? Come on, they fulfil an obviously valid role for many bikes/riders. You really think they're just a marketing gimmick?