What Retrobike "feature" do you avoid when looking for bikes?

[Titiritero]

Back in the day I was in love with a Pacific with elevated chainstays, but they increased the price like 20% barely a month before high school was over and my parents were going to buy me a new bike as "promised". I also liked an OffRoad Proflex, promoted to be an affordable "full-suspension" (it had a Girvin Flextem and a crappy elastomer on a pivoting rear triangle).

Now I am happy I went for a vanilla option and just got a Trek Singletrack. Much easier to find replacements and a design that didn't get as obsolete as the other two... So now obviously I tend to prefer the "boring" choices if they promise easier repairability and spares availability.

 

[retrobikeguy]

*Paying too much
*Most bikes after 95

 

[The History Man]

Aloooominum Alloy frames.

 

[FluffyChicken]

What would you avoid, if anything, on this bike...

 

[Markybeau]

What would you avoid, if anything, on this bike...

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The vomit

 

[doctor-bond]

Aluminium frame (well, unless it’s a Cannondale …)
Anodising (well, unless it’s by Nitto …)
Coloured tyres (well, unless they’re amber coloured… )
Small sloping frames (well, unless it’s an ex race bike …)

Suspension (well ………)

Suspension.

 

[Ren Rawbor]

Front end, the mudflap & the rubber bollox

 

[bikeworkshop]

the rubber bollox

Given the frame ought to have a straight toptube, I assume the luminous rubber bollox () are the owners replacement pair after that "sprinting chain slip" incident

 

[PanoIgano]

What would you avoid, if anything, on this bike...

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I would keep the crankset and rear derailleur the rest would be going for recycling. But that’s me!

 

[The History Man]

What would you avoid, if anything, on this bike...

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Eye contact.