Ah, I see, old farts like me
Well, I myself am after a 'retro' bike, my reasoning is I know the stuff from the early nineties, I developed my riding style then, so am comfortable with bikes of that era. The new stuff, like what, new terms for bikes, I had to go and ask in Halfords what is the new terminology, what it all means and then I decided stuff that, get an old bike.
My old MTB was individual, it had striking classic looks when I got it, metallic black and silver, very classy, my next bike, a retro bike will be the same frame design and will hopefully get a new metallic black powdercoating. My old bike had deore xt throughout, my next bike will be the same, or maybe even xtr, now the prices look better.
I used to use old campagnolo steel toe clips, I am going back to those, I remember they worked for me, so they will work again.
I used to have XT thumbshifters, superb things, I know no other shifter, so with any luck, I hope to find some thumbies again.
I had cable oilers fitted, and all my bolts were tamperproof and I was a fan of the crud products, the crud claw fantastic in snow and ice. At one time I had Nokia studded tyres for biking on ice (back in the days when the winters were cold and the lakes froze)
Oh bugger, I know what I am doing, I am reminiscing, and I always was an individual. Individualty I like, retro will suit me fine.
Oh, and of cars and stuff, to date I have had a 1955 land rover,and a 1977 VW camper, I tend to keep old things for long times, the land-rover I had for ten years, and the camper the same again, my old saracen, I had it for 11 years before I lost it. I rebuilt the land-rover, and very nearly replaced everything in the camper. So, I have an old things mentality, hell, I even shave with a 1935 Rolls razor.
