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Bikes like marmite?
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This thread comes up once per week.
- People dont like Konas because people here post they're 98 Poo-poo whatever and call it retro. Post 94 Konas suck.
- GT Lobo isn't retro. Its just an old FS bike. Retro full suspension - what's the point?
Typical fodder from you. How could they 'flood the market' without demand for a product from consumers?
- People dont like Konas because people here post they're 98 Poo-poo whatever and call it retro. Post 94 Konas suck.
- GT Lobo isn't retro. Its just an old FS bike. Retro full suspension - what's the point?
cherrybomb":3if3e017 said:
Typical fodder from you. How could they 'flood the market' without demand for a product from consumers?
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I do agree with Ameybrook's way of thinking. 
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ameybrook":61t5fw84 said:
Lots of love in your direction too dude.
When exactly did I piss on your fireworks and make it personal?
cherrybomb":2wugusp3 said:
Hey I'm just saying stupid is as stupid says. Dont make dumb statements like that and I wont call you out on them.
Apologies if it was taken personal. This is the Internets :roll:
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Welcome to the not-so-broad-as-we-thought-it-was church...
Back to the thread... :roll:
Still struggling to embrace all DH-specific machines through a personal concept that anything over 10 years back should get a welcome here. Having said that, I can look with wonder and disbelief at a whole bunch of early FS bikes that I wouldn't hanker after in my cellar - a Crosstrac Sonoma amongst others springs to mind here...!
I don't care for the concept of buying a new bike every couple of years, so anything pre-1996 made in good faith I will always be a sucker for - period. It continues to represent the best of times I had through cycling and extending that in a contemporary context is still valid (thanks in no small part to RB and eBay). The mechanics of Capitalism went and ruined pretty much everything cycling in the high street after 1996 (as per), so if we're talking modern manufacturers we have to look at the boutique and the hand made (not marketing-led exercises by the established names) or 'make-do' with the old school.
Within the site, 'signature builds' often make me yawn - Aqua Fades covered in Ringle blue is an obvious example; I have a love/hate relationhsip with the 'catalogue-build' concept, mainly because we Brits just didn't do that BiTD - what percentage of showroom bikes from '90 onwards were pushed out without some 'personalisation'??; high-end stuff can leave me cold too - generally the king's new clothes in performance terms IMHO (otherwise why not make millions of them at a good price point??) and I suspect more a marketeer's tool, so I view limited edition Ti frames with deep suspicion for example.
It also makes me smile inside to see several rare and unanimously desired bikes (read: made for the elitist owner profile) meet at an event or ride - therefore cancelling out their very reason for being...
More anon, no doubt... ;-)
Mr K
Back to the thread... :roll:
Still struggling to embrace all DH-specific machines through a personal concept that anything over 10 years back should get a welcome here. Having said that, I can look with wonder and disbelief at a whole bunch of early FS bikes that I wouldn't hanker after in my cellar - a Crosstrac Sonoma amongst others springs to mind here...!
I don't care for the concept of buying a new bike every couple of years, so anything pre-1996 made in good faith I will always be a sucker for - period. It continues to represent the best of times I had through cycling and extending that in a contemporary context is still valid (thanks in no small part to RB and eBay). The mechanics of Capitalism went and ruined pretty much everything cycling in the high street after 1996 (as per), so if we're talking modern manufacturers we have to look at the boutique and the hand made (not marketing-led exercises by the established names) or 'make-do' with the old school.
Within the site, 'signature builds' often make me yawn - Aqua Fades covered in Ringle blue is an obvious example; I have a love/hate relationhsip with the 'catalogue-build' concept, mainly because we Brits just didn't do that BiTD - what percentage of showroom bikes from '90 onwards were pushed out without some 'personalisation'??; high-end stuff can leave me cold too - generally the king's new clothes in performance terms IMHO (otherwise why not make millions of them at a good price point??) and I suspect more a marketeer's tool, so I view limited edition Ti frames with deep suspicion for example.
It also makes me smile inside to see several rare and unanimously desired bikes (read: made for the elitist owner profile) meet at an event or ride - therefore cancelling out their very reason for being...
More anon, no doubt... ;-)
Mr K
