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

[fguki]

Marzocchi forks ...absolutely hideous.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Hideous yes,
But you could fix them yourself

 

[synchronicity]

I personally cannot stand cantilever brakes.
I think they are an abomination of the 1990s.
Every time I see someone post something in pre-97 chat, I think to myself "Well they should have got v-brakes".
I even asked AI to come up with a few words about them:

 

[sinnerman]

Modern Black spokes on a retro build............

 

[bikeworkshop]

Flat bars on a short wheelbase vintage racer, but still using the drop levers

 

[Antstark]

Anything made by Zoom..not even Ned Overend’s endorsement could convince me it wasn’t anything but cheap light crap.

Also what’s this about cantilever brakes ..am I on the wrong forum? We didn’t need working brakes or suspension in the 80s!

 

[otherself]

U-Brakes
Quill Stems
28 spoked rims (go out of true easily with my 86kg mass)

 

[bikeworkshop]

Cantis helped sort the problem of reaching over a large tyre before vs came along.
Ironically vbrakes kept us safe from the fatbike (and the ensuing boost offset, chainline, thruaxle stuff) until the adoption of the disc brake.

Your front knobbly catch on the cable between the arms?
You are flying through space head first
Cantis only did that... if your cable broke!

 

[Antstark]

Cantis helped sort the problem of reaching over a large tyre before vs came along.
Ironically vbrakes kept us safe from the fatbike (and the ensuing boost offset, chainline, thruaxle stuff) until the adoption of the disc brake.

Your front knobbly catch on the cable between the arms?
You are flying through space head first
Cantis only did that... if your cable broke!

That’s why proper canti cables were 2mm thick..you could pull a truck with them..they were never going to snap

 

[bikeworkshop]

That’s why proper canti cables were 2mm thick..you could pull a truck with them..they were never going to snap

Except where they had been crushed by the cable hanger or canti arm pinch bolt. The rest of the cable could still pull a truck