Can't beat the feeling

[al]

Sadly too posh round here for bike jumbles.

Either that or not enough hipsters.

You only have yourself to blame.

al.

 

[markoc]

The memories of spending hours in OnYourBike and Rayments in Brighton, looking at the same bikes as I had done the week before - scrutinising every last detail. Seeing if they had the latest widget or trick bit in that I'd read about in MBUK/MBR/MBi to feel it in my hand. No chance of ever being able to afford it, but that and the heady smell of GT85 and new rubber was the stuff that teenage dreams were made of. Walking out with an ano bottle cage bolt to go with the one I bought the week before. A few more weeks and I'd have the complete set.

Every once in while my ebay trawling takes me back, or a random post on here about a long forgotten bit of kit or rider.

Happy days. Night and day from bike shops (in the main) of today, much is the shame.

 

[d00m]

It was the new bike smell for me. That clean oil and fresh rubber... ooh er

 

[pictonroad]

I'm partial to ordering tyres to be delivered just to experience the visceral thrill of time travel when I open the package and inhale...

Ahhhh

If I was to come into serious money I'd build myself a home pub in the style of a wooden floored bikeshop in 1996. Stock the cabinets with anodised trinkets and caratti catalogues. I'd just spend my evenings wandering around in a blissful fug of nostalgia.

 

[Bike Hoarder]

I'd build myself a home pub in the style of a wooden floored bikeshop in 1996. Stock the cabinets with anodised trinkets and caratti catalogues. I'd just spend my evenings wandering around in a blissful fug of nostalgia.

Sounds like a slice of heaven right there!