What do you hate seeing on a gorgeous retro bike?

[t-stoff]

I kinda like it LOL

 

[Neil]

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!)...

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!

I don't get the mudguards - other than as ornaments, what are they keeping clean?

Their brackets?

 

[We_are_Stevo]

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

Oh yeah, and I like them... :twisted:

 

[thecannibal]

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!)...

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!

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.

 

[t-stoff]

they are actually good if you live near a pig farm : /

 

[Neil]

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.

 

[Neil]

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.

 

[thecannibal]

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...

 

[We_are_Stevo]

I suggest you ask for a refund...

 

[Neil]

I suggest you ask for a refund...

"Sanity is such a drag"