Disco Drive
Senior Retro Guru
O.K we all ride retro framesets but how many of us had to bite the bullet and go for newer parts to finish that build or even chose to?
Ihave a '92 Klein Attitude with a disk drive and XT thumbies and chose to finish it with an XTR M952 groupo and more modern Race Face crankset so that makes it around 80% retro in my reckoning?
I also have my road steed... a '93 Cannondale sm500 with Pace RC 35's, XT thumbies, xtr mechs, hope hubs and newer finishing components such as Race Face bars and Crankset, new style USE Ti post and Avid brake levers. Say 70% Retro.
My question is this: does a bike still qualify as being retro by having a best of both worlds mix of old and new provided the majority is old school?
Ihave a '92 Klein Attitude with a disk drive and XT thumbies and chose to finish it with an XTR M952 groupo and more modern Race Face crankset so that makes it around 80% retro in my reckoning?
I also have my road steed... a '93 Cannondale sm500 with Pace RC 35's, XT thumbies, xtr mechs, hope hubs and newer finishing components such as Race Face bars and Crankset, new style USE Ti post and Avid brake levers. Say 70% Retro.
My question is this: does a bike still qualify as being retro by having a best of both worlds mix of old and new provided the majority is old school?