Most Expensive Retro Build Spec Possible.. Theoretically !

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Wheel Disc - £1000 NOS


You wouldn't get a NOS disk for that, and you haven't allowed for a really nice expensive hub or rim to lace it to...

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This is all a little skewed. For example, there was a time when you could get a Tioga disc wheel new for £25 when Madison sold off Thier old stock. I've seen Chris king/wtb headsets sell for under £200. It's easy to overinflate that value of something, you only have to look on eBay at the ridiculous bin prices for common tat, let alone rare stuff.

What are a lot of the parts rare? Pedigree and minimal numbers made I get, but a lot of the retro stuff is rare because it was poorly designed and under-engineered so they often broke. Some of it did look good though.

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ishaw":3bo9fduo said:

This is all a little skewed. For example, there was a time when you could get a Tioga disc wheel new for £25 when Madison sold off Thier old stock. I've seen Chris king/wtb headsets sell for under £200. It's easy to overinflate that value of something, you only have to look on eBay at the ridiculous bin prices for common tat, let alone rare stuff.

What are a lot of the parts rare? Pedigree and minimal numbers made I get, but a lot of the retro stuff is rare because it was poorly designed and under-engineered so they often broke. Some of it did look good though.

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Of course you could get these parts for much less bitd. I still have some of my original invoices Onza white porcs £10ea on special etc. This thread is more about showing how things can and have changed with the value of retro parts. We all know you can build a retro bike very cheap -£100-150 but i never had a clue, as i suspect many of us didnt, just how pricey a top end ‘iconic build’ can be. Significabtly MORE than a modern halo bike £7-10k. Lets not forget the modern has a crazy high depreciation rate. A top end original retro like a Klein Attitude or Cunningham starts to make sense, not only as a great rider but as a safe investment There does seem to be a healthy increase in interest in such Iconic bikes, at least on FB.

I’d argue that most of the best ‘upgrade’ components of yesteryear were ‘better made’ than much of the modern stuff, which has clearly been made with built in obsolescence for profitability in mind, not to mention constant design/ spec changes. Much of the old stuff has lasted 20-30yrs anyway and was lovingly cnc machined

Of course there are examples of poor construction due to bad alloys, poor use of materials, glues and quality control. There always has been but by and large i think it was ‘BETTER’ engineered often by small artisan manufacturers looking to make their mark in a sport they participated in an loved. Its all so marketing driven by huge corporations these days, with only a tiny niche of hadmade custom builders and even fewer custom upgrade component makers

M-Power said:

Frame : Cunningham updated £10K

Forks - IRD Ti £850
Headset - WTB/CK headset £685 :shock:
Stem - Cook Bros 135mm £600
Bars - Cook Bros Sushi Ti bars £330
Brake levers - Grafton NOS £350
Seatpost - Syncros Ti NOS £550
Saddle - £250 Flite NOS
Pedals ?
Brakes - full set of WTB original Rollercams £2410 :shock:
Hubs - ?
Cranks - ? CPR Titanium £1200
Chainrings ? Boon x3 £350
Bottom Bracket ?
Wheel Disc - £1000 NOS
Rims - ?
Spokes - ? Ti Dye - cost for 72 ?
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Grand total so far is £21,470

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Pedals: Grafton NOS

Bottom Bracket: Boone Helixx Ti

Tires: Onza Porcupines, white

Marzocchi RAC £3600

Pair these with the NOS graftons

NOS flite evo

Mod-Master said:

NOS flite evo

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That is steep. I paid 250 euros for mine. NOS w/o box.

Mod-Master said:

Marzocchi RAC £3600

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Sweet fricking Lord...

£150 for brake boosters