Bianca old but gold
Retro Newbie
Hi all, I have ridden bikes all my life and remember when mountain bikes first entered the scene.
It wasn't long before I had my first, a falcon cycles my mum bought me out of the catalogue lol.
Over the time I've had a few but I can never forget the feeling of my first high end mountain bike I rode. It was a gt karakoram and it felt just right.
Livley and light it made me feel uber confident and I enjoyed it so much, unfortunately this wasn't mine and I had to give it back.
I did after this get a treck, it felt the same it was a chro molly steel one and I loved to ride it.
Unfortunately I out grew this and bought a gt pantera this was alloy and it was ok but not as nice as the steel one I had ridden before.
Or so I thought I carnt belive I never realised it wasn't the material it was made of but the wheel size and its geometry.
The later bike had 27.5 and of course the others 26.
I bought a carrera Cross bike and that had 700c wheels I hated it so got that up for sale now and bought a retro ride mountain bike, its a bianchi oetzi.
I love the way it feels its taken me back to my youth there's a few mods I'd like to do as I don't need it fully off road spec but I know I'll get some use from it as I love its ride.
I'd like to possibly change its forks for some solid carbon ones and remove the pace evo 2s
And make it just a higher geard nine speeder as its very flat were I live.
So hopefully I'll get reading some topics on how and what to get from this forum.
Here's a pic of her, bianca old but gold!!
It wasn't long before I had my first, a falcon cycles my mum bought me out of the catalogue lol.
Over the time I've had a few but I can never forget the feeling of my first high end mountain bike I rode. It was a gt karakoram and it felt just right.
Livley and light it made me feel uber confident and I enjoyed it so much, unfortunately this wasn't mine and I had to give it back.
I did after this get a treck, it felt the same it was a chro molly steel one and I loved to ride it.
Unfortunately I out grew this and bought a gt pantera this was alloy and it was ok but not as nice as the steel one I had ridden before.
Or so I thought I carnt belive I never realised it wasn't the material it was made of but the wheel size and its geometry.
The later bike had 27.5 and of course the others 26.
I bought a carrera Cross bike and that had 700c wheels I hated it so got that up for sale now and bought a retro ride mountain bike, its a bianchi oetzi.
I love the way it feels its taken me back to my youth there's a few mods I'd like to do as I don't need it fully off road spec but I know I'll get some use from it as I love its ride.
I'd like to possibly change its forks for some solid carbon ones and remove the pace evo 2s
And make it just a higher geard nine speeder as its very flat were I live.
So hopefully I'll get reading some topics on how and what to get from this forum.
Here's a pic of her, bianca old but gold!!
