The Retro thread......blasts from the past

steve-t

tioga power grips like toe clips only cooler. and my 90s dream klein oohhhh

chrisga

Oh how I miss my Trek 970 with RC35's, DCD, crud claw, XTR shortcage mech, and purple and red anodised everything including anodised red USE seatpost. I dont even think I kept a picture of it because when I got rid of it it was so knackered and I was so racked off with everything MTB I just pulled it apart and flogged it off piece by piece. I really regret that now.

Nick Dastardly

Anodised v-brake stiffeners
Fred Salmon Fish Grips
Flesh-walled tyres
Rox clothes adverts in the front of every MBUK
There were no fancy energy bars, just Kendal mint cake and fig rolls

Next time I'm at my mum's I'll try and find a pic of my mid 90's bike. Sure there's one knocking aorund somewhere.

Banned!

cant be bothered trawling through all this, but has anybody mentioned rear mechs with wooden look casings? they were stinking ugly.

Mickey Eye

I really want to find pictures of my first mtb, 18 speed SIS Diamondback Outlook either 89 or 90. I loved that thing.

Soggz

...erm, quite 'retro' i s'pose...its still in the process of building for the summer.The bike and forks are '94 i think, and ive got loads of mint XT from the same year to go on it.

Banned!

its not retro if it has qr wheels.

supersonic

Eh?! The QR was invented in 1927 lol.

Banned!

yeah, but for a mountain biek to be proper retro it has to have bolt on wheels and stainless steel rims.

supersonic

And lugged frames, caliper brakes, sturmey archer hehe

djvagabon

My first decent bike. A cannondale SM 800. It had a Girvin flexistem. Does anyone remeber those. The height of suspension technology lol. About 1 inch of travel. I thought i was Ned Overend when i had that lol. I have Fox RLCs now. Oh how things have changed for the better.

Soggz

Anyone on here got any pictures of original GT's from 1972 when they were firs built as I am interested in getting one to put on the back of my VW camper of the same year...

cheehee

Anyone remember the Raleigh Vektar? It had a white plastic console on the top tube, which made electronic beeping and buzzing sounds. It may have also had a radio.......I can't remember.

dodgy

Jesus_Christ wrote:

yeah, but for a mountain biek to be proper retro it has to have bolt on wheels and stainless steel rims.

That's bollocks. Even the very first MTBs into this country were fitted with QRs.

Matt-B

cheehee wrote:

The Raleigh Lizard

I don't know whether this was mentioned before, but somewhere on Gumtree/eBay a while back, someone was selling a fixed-wheel Lizard... It was both awesome and awful at the same time. My poor brain couldn't work out whether I was experiencing nostalgia or nausea.

...that paint job! Like someone had been sick over the frame!

djvagabon

I had biopace, whatever happened to those. I had them on a Carrera Quatro Comp GT.

Bobhellen

My ride used to be a giant cold rock. that got nicked and i went to a M trax 150 :roll:

passout

A Rocky Mountain 'Experience' from 1992......... E-stays forever! (Still ride it)

dodgy

Rex Trimnel forks 8)

fcumok

Matt-B wrote:

cheehee wrote:

The Raleigh Lizard

I don't know whether this was mentioned before, but somewhere on Gumtree/eBay a while back, someone was selling a fixed-wheel Lizard... It was both awesome and awful at the same time. My poor brain couldn't work out whether I was experiencing nostalgia or nausea.

...that paint job! Like someone had been sick over the frame!

I still have a Raleigh Lizard in my shed :oops:

nicklouse

Cant believe i have not put my retro bike up yet.



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geordiefreerider

supersonic wrote:

Anyone remember Fred Salmon?!

Did they make grips similar to onza porcipaws ?

geordiefreerider

poo monster wrote:

Just sold my Retro lovely my old Manitou FS loved this bike and really did not want to let it go but then along came a new bike and well one of my babies had to go and it was her Sold it and now miss it like crazy :roll: oh well!!!

There is no way on this planet I would of sold that !!!!!! I want it !!

geordiefreerider

Onza porcipaws, spokey dokeys and the old class of derailleur - 300 GS 500 GS ha ha !

mongoosed

I used to have a raleigh apex with girvin flexstem,but a mate of mine bought a bike called a donkis knob..no joke all the letters stood for something cant remember what though,i was dead jealous cause it looked good,jeez i can still remember saying to him that his knob looked great....oh god.

Anonymous

dodgy wrote:

Jesus_Christ wrote:

yeah, but for a mountain biek to be proper retro it has to have bolt on wheels and stainless steel rims.

That's bollocks. Even the very first MTBs into this country were fitted with QRs.

No they weren't!

My 1986 Muddy Fox courier (still in use today, looks fantastic, rides even better, has all original kit except for a Biopace chainset that was swapped in when the original broke in about 1988) has bolt on wheels.

Not sure about the rim material but I think they are Alloy. Still look great. I must get round to posting some pictures!

Anonymous

djvagabon wrote:

I had biopace, whatever happened to those. I had them on a Carrera Quatro Comp GT.

Behold the new incarnation of oval cranks (these are apparently awesome, the 2008 Tour de France winner Sastre uses them)

http://www.rotorbike.com/nueva/ingles/ingles.htm

adb1006

supersonic wrote:

Anyone remember Fred Salmon?!

Made the best grips ever!!!

Used to have a Diamondback Topanga, 1992 i think it was, had Uno bars & stem, Onza bar ends, and Avenir toe clips and computer! Upgraded to Deore DX groupset (rapidfire shifters, not rapidfire plus!). HA

clodhoppa74

i had a raleigh maverick - except metallic maroon, and knobbly tyres. unfortunately it got wrapped around the front of a car, with me on it, so much so it fitted on the back seat of a panda car.

i loved that bike.

robmanic1

Nike Nguba's and Panaracer Smoke/ Dart combo anyone?