Considering Selling the Lot

[boxxer]

I've reached a low ebb with my bikes and I'm now considering selling the whole lot and getting 1 modern bike like a SC Bronson or something similar maybe 27.5" (not 29" as I couldnt do that) that I can actually use hard on a regular basis and have fun on. Retrobikes are good fun but I've now puntured on 3 or 4 of my last run outs on the rigid so maybe my fairy elephantine touch needs something suspended and over braked.....

I'm thinking about embarking on one last Retro Project that I need to pick up from Kaiser which is the Indian Fire Trail from 93 which deserves a Cat spec and Manitous.

So macretro talk me out of it or there will be all the bikes in my Sig for sale (including my 2 Santa Cruz which I dont want to sell really) and a load of Tyres / spares

Or maybe dont

 

[clubby]

Look down for my recent thread called the Culling.
It kind of says the lot.

But just to add one thing, will a new bike really cure the bike blues?

 

[velomaniac]

A cull is a useful thing as too many projects can actually do you psychological harm. Clear the decks of some stuff, it'll help clear the head.
Nothing wrong with going modern if it keeps you riding and enjoying.
Personally I'm veering toward a lot less bikes but intend to have at least one retro for retro meets.
Bike that gives the smiles and gets ridden the most at the moment is a semi modern half fat, who'd have thought it.
I wouldn't bin the lot but I'd narrow it down to one or two special retro's and not one jot more !

 

[highlandsflyer]

Sounds like a good idea. You can always start again when, if, the mood takes you. I have never understood the insistence of some that actually riding older bikes is somehow more 'fun'. A little like old tractors compared to newer ones. The old ones still do the job, but where is the air con, noise insulated cabs and most importantly the sound system? All modern bikes have sound systems and air conditioning.

 

[velomaniac]

HF, please note the exit to the modern world where people who dont see the point of retrobikes should really be :facepalm:

 

[highlandsflyer]

I have never understood the insistence of some that actually riding older bikes is somehow more 'fun'.

Now, now Velo! I wasnae suggesting riding and fettling old bikes is not fun, nor that there is no point to them. Merely taking a stance agin them that would suggest they are somehow 'more' fun. I only own one bike that was made in the last ten years, out of a dozen or so. The reason I love to ride the old bikes is to do with the way they ride, not their age. My DBR Vertex has a very distinctive feel to it, a snappiness I haven't encountered on many bikes and, as I have a couple of them in great nick, I don't really need to look for anything modern that equates. The Clockwork is, well, a Clockwork. It does what it says on the tin. The Jamis Dragon is a 2004, and I can run discs or cantis on it, yet the geometry is the same as my old one that was much older. Fits like a glove, I can't see how it could be bettered.

However, I regularly ride a Lapierre as my mate always has two in his van. I have never felt short changed in enjoyment terms riding those. I don't fettle them either. I don't actually enjoy fettling bikes without motors anyway.

Too simple.