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being called one stung
people who know me will also know that I'm pretty much exactly the same on here as I am in the real world (but with more odour)
retrogrouch....
Hmmm, I dunno, I like my old bicycles. Getting older you see the patterns forming and it may take a while for some but newer is not always beterer and that can be hard for some to understanderer. I like being surrounded by stuff that all works together, I like taking a 35 year old wheelset and knowing that it will fit perfectly with that and shift equally well with the other. Its stability in an uncertain world. I cant stand friction shifting, I have 15 sets of SPD pedals at the last count and theres even rumour of the existence of a set of carbon fibre bars on one of my bicycles....
I stream, the TV is OLED, this laptop is touchscreen and solid state and I have solar panels. My music is old, new and all sorts inbetween. Heck, I blew shitloads on Hope hydraulics when they came out, going from cantilevers to discs? Blew my mind. Full suspension as soon as I could afford it, again, it was bonkers. I had a DAT walkman, I had a NICAM stereo TV as soon as I could, I had a plasma screen as soon as I could
so anyway, my old bicycles, radios, hifi, synthesisers were new to someone once and were cutting edge in their day. As a result of an upbringing by a frugal grandmother who lived through rationing and WWI and growing up having to make do and mend , some of those genes led me to living in a similar way. But retrogrouch? eek! I just like the old stuff others discarded
But I draw the line at carbon frames, Bournemouth and 12spd cassettes
Retrogrump, maybe.
people who know me will also know that I'm pretty much exactly the same on here as I am in the real world (but with more odour)
retrogrouch....
Hmmm, I dunno, I like my old bicycles. Getting older you see the patterns forming and it may take a while for some but newer is not always beterer and that can be hard for some to understanderer. I like being surrounded by stuff that all works together, I like taking a 35 year old wheelset and knowing that it will fit perfectly with that and shift equally well with the other. Its stability in an uncertain world. I cant stand friction shifting, I have 15 sets of SPD pedals at the last count and theres even rumour of the existence of a set of carbon fibre bars on one of my bicycles....
I stream, the TV is OLED, this laptop is touchscreen and solid state and I have solar panels. My music is old, new and all sorts inbetween. Heck, I blew shitloads on Hope hydraulics when they came out, going from cantilevers to discs? Blew my mind. Full suspension as soon as I could afford it, again, it was bonkers. I had a DAT walkman, I had a NICAM stereo TV as soon as I could, I had a plasma screen as soon as I could
so anyway, my old bicycles, radios, hifi, synthesisers were new to someone once and were cutting edge in their day. As a result of an upbringing by a frugal grandmother who lived through rationing and WWI and growing up having to make do and mend , some of those genes led me to living in a similar way. But retrogrouch? eek! I just like the old stuff others discarded
But I draw the line at carbon frames, Bournemouth and 12spd cassettes
Retrogrump, maybe.
