Your Retrobike least wanted list.

[pete_mcc]

8 years of public school undone by a few glasses of wine!

You're back in the club, - you used the key words Public School and Wine rather than Borstal and Turps. Tally-ho and down with the plebs!


I forgot to say I can't be doing with Marin, sort of like the rohypnol of mountain bikes: they have a soporific effect on the buyer and the next day after one dirty ride you wake up feeling a bit wrong, as if you did something you shouldn't have the day before.

 

[Neil]

I forgot to say I can't be doing with Marin, sort of like the rohypnol of mountain bikes: they have a soporific effect on the buyer and the next day after one dirty ride you wake up feeling a bit wrong, as if you did something you shouldn't have the day before.

There speaks the voice of experience...

... and, wins the award for the most unlikely analogy of 2011.

If I hadn't read it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have quite believed it - smoother than Larry Niven, Pete effortless segued from Marin bikes to roofies.

And they said it couldn't be done.

 

[pete_mcc]

I thank you. And for my next trick I shall go from trek 8000s to cold war gulags via genocide in one simple statement

 

[Stick Legs]

I thank you. And for my next trick I shall go from trek 8000s to cold war gulags via genocide in one simple statement

Surely that just invloves a reference to the east-west arms race and unfortunate end of those who's glue did not make it into production!

 

[legrandefromage]

I thank you. And for my next trick I shall go from trek 8000s to cold war gulags via genocide in one simple statement

You too bought an 8000 then?

 

[pete_mcc]

You too bought an 8000 then?

I vicariously felt your pain!

 

[andrewl]

Other than recumbents I don’t really have a least wanted list although there are many which fail to ignite any passion based purely on looks.

 

[ringo]

Agency_Scum wrote:
GT Zaskars.



Here's a picture of my old Zaskar that I rode for a year.


Rounded end cap. Clearly an Avalanche.

Quality gag... brightened a dull day at work!

For me -

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[D_XZ]

Orange Clockwork: tried one and found it lifeless.

Orange P7: same as Clockwork.

Zaskar: Had one and hated it's ride to the point I stopped mountain biking for a few years (couldn't afford to replace it). Strange as I really liked the GT Backwoods I had before it which supposedly had the same geometry. I have a steel GT now

Pace: Love them but for some reason don't fancy owning one. Can't explain.

Yo Eddy: Found retrobike a couple of years ago when searching for an old Yo to make a cheap commuter with a £100 budget. Still haven't recovered from the shock!

 

[raymondluxuryyacht]

Each to their own...I found both the clockwork and the p7 springy and lively. I have always been an orange fan because of how much I enjoyed 90s oranges. There are quite a few other British brand 90s bikes I'd like to own though I have no idea whether they actually ride well (e.g. Bromwich, Dave Loyd, Chas Roberts).

I really detest modern Konas and Saracens ...as once utilitarian or fun bikes that have gone bad.
Cannondale...never saw the appeal, just don't get it.
Agree Klein overpriced...but that doesn't mean I'd say no to one.
I wouldn't say no to a few modern Treks, but on the whole they don't interest me.
Marin can kind of take or leave. Likewise gt.
Specialized strangely I can see the appeal of, but perhaps I have rose tinted glasses as a result of teenage stumpjumper lust ;-)