What state is retro biking in at the moment?

[Incworks-1969]

Re: Neil's post...Perhaps there are others in the veteran classification that remember riding/pushing/pulling all manor of two wheeled contraptions up hills or slag-heeps just to ride down them again and again. As well as riding through dammed streams, over sheep tracks, we'd be out for hours. 27" wheeled single speed with callipers brakes against chrome dimpled steel rims....no one would do that these days...too bloody dangerous...

Perhaps the idea of retro biking for me is to placate my mid life crisis, get back to a simpler, less complicate way of dealing with things...ride, smile, eat cake. Easy...

 

[barry2017]

With age comes the experience to know you might get hurt. Also, your body takes longer to heal. Steel rims and mountain biking are best in the past, I feel.

You're right, though, in that a lot of it is just marketing. I try and avoid the mountain bike scene, but speaking to some of them you could imagine them wanting to send their GPS locations so they can have a helicopter drop their downhill bike off at the top of each hill.

I might join the Rough Stuff Fellowship this year. I didn't get on with my last cycling club, but it's always nice to meet a few people, and it looks like the kind of riding I do on my own, which is similar to what you describe.

 

[legrandefromage]

My garage is full again so it must be ok.

 

[FMJ]

My garage is full again so it must be ok.

Took ya long enough.

 

[jonty]

Demographically speaking one would have thought that the interest in acquiring and riding vintage bikes particularly rigid Mountain bikes should be at an all time high.
Someone in their teens or early twenties in the mid 'eighties and 'nineties who lusted after such bikes but could not afford them would now be in their forties or early fifties and possibly in a position to indulge themselves.
Interestingly, interest in vintage F frame Moultons remains robust even though their time was the 'sixties and early 'seventies and the number of people who can recall seeing them and wanted one when they first came out must be decreasing year by year.

 

[ultrazenith]

My garage is full again so it must be ok.

What do people consider to be a full garage these days?

 

[Gaddmeister]

My garage is full again so it must be ok.

Nice one! I am working on it!

 

[sinnerman]

My garage is full again so it must be ok.

What do people consider to be a full garage these days?

 

[Gaddmeister]

My garage is full again so it must be ok.

What do people consider to be a full garage these days?

Lmao! I love it! If only?

 

[ultrazenith]

Now I understand Sinnerman's 'location'. That's one awesome man cave you've got there mate - like sharks with frickin lasers!!