A tongue in cheek look at retro

[Mike Muz]

Re:

I've used alloy ano chainring bolts before, they either keep coming loose or the thread strips as you do them up.
I still prefer threaded headsets, although riding off-road seems to loosen them , or at least, means tightening them up more in my experience. Or maybe I'm just a crap mechanic :roll:

Mike

 

[FluffyChicken]

Aluminium Chainring bolts come as standard on high end chainsets.

 

[one_bad_mofo]

It's not alloy bolts that I'm against as such. It is more the use of them incorrectly. Companies like X-lite made the anodised aluminium collars for canti bolts so riders could have some colour there without the inherent danger of using a low tensile strength alloy bolt in a high force application. I used to run anodized bolts in my brake levers, thumb shifters, bolt cages, basically anywhere where it was safe to do so.

There was also the issue of outrageously clashing colour schemes. I know one rider who had gold, purple and green anodised parts on one bike... Not a good look.

I wonder what the reaction will be in 20 years time if I do a piece looking at the kit we're using today?

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Just the same of course.

It'll be how everything is poor carbon fibre. Ano was just nowhere to be seen and monotone in colour people just liked baige bike and mad them all look that same in whatever highlight colour was that year.

Suspension was rediculous and how they worked without ai controlling them.

A new flexstem would have just been released to great fanfare yet again.

And why wide bars and short stems that look terrible where used is anyone's guess, how would you get through the barriers and trees, always getting caught on the bushes.


And all the who har about 3 wheel sizes when what was all that about. The 660 (six-sixties) was found to be the perfect size all along.