98+ BoTM 98+ Bike of The Month May 2025 - Time to vote

[PhillB]

The Serotta is - congrats @Rambo Mambo!

 

[Rambo Mambo]

The Serotta is - congrats @Rambo Mambo!

Thank you for your well wishes bro

 

[Imlach]

Mmmh, okay, I will know it for next time.
For me the pedals are not really part of the bicycle built and does'nt make it "incomplete", it's more a personnal accessory that I carry from bike to bike when I ride it. Most high end bikes are sold without pedals, and if you look at the Cannondale 1998 catalog, the Raven is pictured without.
Maybe it's a point about witch you can be more flexible in the future ?
@Woz , thx, I have many period correct pedals that will fit better than cheap PD-M520 ;-)

Deeply apologetic that we didn't go the whole way and also offered a full house makeover for you bud

 

[Woz]

Honestly, if the Bumble Bee won I would have had my doubts that all you "old farts" gathered in mass because it looks and resembles retro despite the little bit over dreaded cut-off time line. It was the down pull LX FD wasn't it? And rigid forks. And bar ends. Please say it was the bar ends too.

It is such an odd frame in this period to go full on V-brake and 1 1/8 Aheadest and the only one single frame that year in the Sunn catalogue to have a pre-historic down-pull FD. If you voted for this I thank you, it was the FD wasn't it? Contact me if you want to buy some NOS top-pull ones.

Thank you all for your votes and interest.

Full congratulations to @Rambo Mambo Serrota - I did indeed lick my lips because it is "my kind" of bike. Ti and what not.

It did not get my vote, it went to to PhillB's 2006 Independent Fabrication Steel Deluxe which I felt was certainly a bike and build top-notch retro friendly and a "modern" with parts and wheelset carefully selected. It was the the bike I thought more friendly to what I want in a bike today.

 

[PhillB]

Honestly, if the Bumble Bee won I would have had my doubts that all you "old farts" gathered in mass because it looks and resembles retro despite the little bit over dreaded cut-off time line. It was the down pull LX FD wasn't it? And rigid forks. And bar ends. Please say it was the bar ends too.

It is such an odd frame in this period to go full on V-brake and 1 1/8 Aheadest and the only one single frame that year in the Sunn catalogue to have a pre-historic down-pull FD. If you voted for this I thank you, it was the FD wasn't it? Contact me if you want to buy some NOS top-pull ones.

Thank you all for your votes and interest.

Full congratulations to @Rambo Mambo Serrota - I did indeed lick my lips because it is "my kind" of bike. Ti and what not.

It did not get my vote, it went to to PhillB's 2006 Independent Fabrication Steel Deluxe which I felt was certainly a bike and build top-notch retro friendly and a "modern" with parts and wheelset carefully selected. It was the the bike I thought more friendly to what I want in a bike today.

Thanks @Woz ! I had loads of fun building the IndyFab - I'd been looking for ages for one, in the UK, and my size... my first build with disk brakes and there was a fair bit of swearing coming from my shed, but that's conducive to the learning process I find.

I did actually vote for the Bumblebee (although the Serotta is lovely too), for two reasons, the bottom pull LX FD, and its overall yellowness. I also have a couple of '98 bikes that are very much from the pre-97 generation (GT Lightning and GT Bravado) and they kind of exist in no-mans land on Retrobike. So post '97 throwback solidarity!!

 

[magas]

great contender bikes and a very deserved winner

 

[Rambo Mambo]

Honestly, if the Bumble Bee won I would have had my doubts that all you "old farts" gathered in mass because it looks and resembles retro despite the little bit over dreaded cut-off time line. It was the down pull LX FD wasn't it? And rigid forks. And bar ends. Please say it was the bar ends too.

It is such an odd frame in this period to go full on V-brake and 1 1/8 Aheadest and the only one single frame that year in the Sunn catalogue to have a pre-historic down-pull FD. If you voted for this I thank you, it was the FD wasn't it? Contact me if you want to buy some NOS top-pull ones.

Thank you all for your votes and interest.

Full congratulations to @Rambo Mambo Serrota - I did indeed lick my lips because it is "my kind" of bike. Ti and what not.

It did not get my vote, it went to to PhillB's 2006 Independent Fabrication Steel Deluxe which I felt was certainly a bike and build top-notch retro friendly and a "modern" with parts and wheelset carefully selected. It was the the bike I thought more friendly to what I want in a bike today.

Thank you for the congratulations! The Indy is really nice I must admit.

 

[Rambo Mambo]

great contender bikes and a very deserved winner

Thank you kindly