I like the bikes that people have restored to original. Like museum pieces that get ridden a bit. But the people that go on about how this or that cross country bike from the early 90s rides so much better than the modern bikes with those wide bars and short stems and slack head angles which are just a fad make me shake my head. "It rides like a dream" they often proclaim about that Klein that miraculously hasn’t failed yet. You know. A nightmare is a type of dream too. The true retro grouch does not pine for the old bikes or old skis. In fact they pine for the days when their body could do the things they could on that old stuff. Yeah, those lte 60s pony cars with 7 litre engines and two four barrel carbs were great. In their day.
Seeing old bikes still being used and cared for as town bikes is heart warming. I kind of want an old frame for conversion to monster cross type bike for gravel.
March 14, 2022, 8:58 a.m. - Andy Eunson
I like the bikes that people have restored to original. Like museum pieces that get ridden a bit. But the people that go on about how this or that cross country bike from the early 90s rides so much better than the modern bikes with those wide bars and short stems and slack head angles which are just a fad make me shake my head. "It rides like a dream" they often proclaim about that Klein that miraculously hasn’t failed yet. You know. A nightmare is a type of dream too. The true retro grouch does not pine for the old bikes or old skis. In fact they pine for the days when their body could do the things they could on that old stuff. Yeah, those lte 60s pony cars with 7 litre engines and two four barrel carbs were great. In their day. Seeing old bikes still being used and cared for as town bikes is heart warming. I kind of want an old frame for conversion to monster cross type bike for gravel.