Campaign to keep retro bikes retro, not for the squeamish

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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    FatTed wrote:
    The Master X Light is not really retro, you can still buy it new now

    customise away then :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,152
    team47b wrote:
    FatTed wrote:
    The Master X Light is not really retro, you can still buy it new now

    customise away then :D

    The tide is turning?

    Would it help if I got pics of it against classic cars?
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,813
    Are the classic cars modified?
    Kinesis Pro6
    Marin Nail Trail
    Cotic Solaris
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    It's not that it has modern parts, its that it looks like a bit of a hodge-podge. If it had carbon forks/bars/stem it would match. The fact you've gone for steel forks and carbon bars/post stem makes it look a bit strange. As it stands feels like it's as if you're sticking a spoiler on a vintage car. Maybe it's just the terrible photos.

    As for the wheels, I am a big fan of deep section wheels on a thin tubed frame, just why not go for all-carbon clinchers or box aluminium rims? If it's going to be ridden for 'best' only (at least to begin with) then the faff with brake pads isn't an issue as it won't be ridden in the wet anyway so no need to change wheels.
  • Coach H
    Coach H Posts: 1,092
    pinarello001 wrote:
    I have a pair of Cinelli criterium's - 42cm.

    Ahh memories. I had these on my Peugeot Comete back in the late 80's
    Coach H. (Dont ask me for training advice - 'It's not about the bike')
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,315
    @ Coridordan, FatTed and Cubedean:

    I don't like your anarchic attitude. It also smacks of delinquency. Whilst I appreciate the constructive arguments suggesting ownership and the freedom attached to that, what would the world look like if we all took relics, antiquity and masterpieces then hung whatever crap comes to hand on them? Lets stick a tache on the Mona Lisa 'cos it's Movember, lets paint the fourth bridge flourescent pink just to keep the twitchers happy and lets give Boris Johnson a haircut, a pair of Nike's and a hoodie.
    People like me go around trying their best to preserve what is sacred and people like you going around bastardising what is pure and crafted - this is just the beginning of the middle of the end of the beginning for a start. I will hold a seance to resurrect the ghosts of Pinarello, Ghengis Khan and Bob Marley and together we will make your lives a living hell until such time as you cannot sleep without fear or dream without vague smokey images of perfect bicycles entering your heads until you rectify the terrible things you have done to the beautiful machines created by the craftsmen of old...

    Cont...p94

    PS Anyone got a Ouija board and a manual?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    (Well, it is Movember after all)
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    You can still buy the X Light, therefore its not retro. Although all Morgans are retro even if you could give them away.
    Nothing sacred about a steel bike from Colnago anymore. Or A turntable to play records on, or a valve amp or a wind up watch.
  • Kendoddsdadsdeaddog
    Kendoddsdadsdeaddog Posts: 12
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, just look at those handlebars. Wtf?

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    Perhaps if Mr H hadn't run out of bar tape half way into the job, nobody would ever have known. :shock:
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,315
    Kendoddsdadsdeaddog wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, just look at those handlebars. Wtf?

    Perhaps if Mr H hadn't run out of bar tape half way into the job, nobody would ever have known. :shock:

    Maybe he run out of money - seen the price of those things? I have an acquaintance who equipped his new Look 747 or whatever the hell the name for the soul-less thing he bought, with a pair of carbon bars and carbon stem. I figured it cost him nearly 200 smackers to have a stem and handlebars weighing a massive 165 gms less than my Cinelli criteriums and an Alu stem. That's over a pound per gram.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Kendoddsdadsdeaddog
    Kendoddsdadsdeaddog Posts: 12
    A pound per gram???

    Compared to my coke dealer, that's excellent value for money.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    Kendoddsdadsdeaddog wrote:
    A pound per gram???

    Compared to my coke dealer, that's excellent value for money.
    Seems excessive.
    I can get 330g of coke for less than a pound. Well, 330ml, but that is fairly close to 330g.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,152
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Kendoddsdadsdeaddog wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, just look at those handlebars. Wtf?

    Perhaps if Mr H hadn't run out of bar tape half way into the job, nobody would ever have known. :shock:

    Maybe he run out of money - seen the price of those things? I have an acquaintance who equipped his new Look 747 or whatever the hell the name for the soul-less thing he bought, with a pair of carbon bars and carbon stem. I figured it cost him nearly 200 smackers to have a stem and handlebars weighing a massive 165 gms less than my Cinelli criteriums and an Alu stem. That's over a pound per gram.

    More than that :D

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