What do you hate seeing on a gorgeous retro bike?

We_are_Stevo":68pw25wv said:
Having offended a good proportion of the membership by fitting a white Flite to my Kili Comp, I'll compound my heinous flaunting of apparent RetroBIKE goog taste with my...

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...small frame; long seatpost; 160mm stem; modern canti's; mudguards (neon!)...
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In my defence; I may be over 6' tall but I have short legs and long arms so I like my frames set up this way (aesthetics may also have a certain say in it too ;) ), I put the yellow canti's on because a: they're Ritchey style and b: I've Maguras on my other cro-mega and I like yellow brakes, and BiTD I had the matching neon pink mudguards on my white cro-mega so could resist these when they came up on eBay! :LOL:
I don't get the mudguards - other than as ornaments, what are they keeping clean?

Their brackets?
 
It's an early 90's bike, they're neon green, what further justification do I need?? ;)

Oh yeah, and I like them... :twisted:
 
Neil":2yhh7nkz said:
We_are_Stevo":2yhh7nkz said:
Having offended a good proportion of the membership by fitting a white Flite to my Kili Comp, I'll compound my heinous flaunting of apparent RetroBIKE goog taste with my...

...small frame; long seatpost; 160mm stem; modern canti's; mudguards (neon!)...
gif.gif


In my defence; I may be over 6' tall but I have short legs and long arms so I like my frames set up this way (aesthetics may also have a certain say in it too ;) ), I put the yellow canti's on because a: they're Ritchey style and b: I've Maguras on my other cro-mega and I like yellow brakes, and BiTD I had the matching neon pink mudguards on my white cro-mega so could resist these when they came up on eBay! :LOL:
I don't get the mudguards - other than as ornaments, what are they keeping clean?

Their brackets?

Those kind of guards do way more than you'd think. Used to be very popular on road bikes.
 
thecannibal":222nly68 said:
Neil":222nly68 said:
I don't get the mudguards - other than as ornaments, what are they keeping clean?

Their brackets?
Those kind of guards do way more than you'd think. Used to be very popular on road bikes.
I had several road (/ "racers") bikes in the 80s with that sort of thing on, so I have frequent, reoccuring flashbacks of their efficacy.

Suffice to say, they help keep their brackets clean...

I'm largely recovered from the trauma, now, but it's been a long, rocky, and torturous, not to mention expensive, journey of the usual - you know, pills, therapy, self-help CDs.
 
t-stoff":an481uui said:
they are actually good if you live near a pig farm : /
See now you've said that, I've got Brick-Top and his rants rolling around my noggin.
 
Neil":8wjwnslg said:
thecannibal":8wjwnslg said:
Neil":8wjwnslg said:
I don't get the mudguards - other than as ornaments, what are they keeping clean?

Their brackets?
Those kind of guards do way more than you'd think. Used to be very popular on road bikes.
I had several road (/ "racers") bikes in the 80s with that sort of thing on, so I have frequent, reoccuring flashbacks of their efficacy.

Suffice to say, they help keep their brackets clean...

I'm largely recovered from the trauma, now, but it's been a long, rocky, and torturous, not to mention expensive, journey of the usual - you know, pills, therapy, self-help CDs.

Yeah, they are shit, just not quite as shit as you might imagine...
 

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