Proper neo-retro: Bobbin Wagtail

[gradeAfailure]

Want a brand-spanking new bike but still lust after thumbshifters, cantis, and threaded headsets? The Bobbin Wagtail is the answer to your prayers!

In all seriousness, I think it looks awesome, and at £460 at Wiggle/Chainreaction (down from £595), it's pretty tempting..!

 

[legrandefromage]

As an owner of a Bobbin Scout - there are better things I could have spent my money on.

But thats me.

 

[Rod_Saetan]

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I quite like that, but £460 would get you a long way towards a nice retro MTB frame set with better quality modern kit on it.

 

[longun]

looks nice

but its not actually retro/old, and thats the point for me

 

[Rod_Saetan]

It is technically retro.

 

[Bunjy]

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Hey, I'm wondering has anyone bought one of these and could let me know how they find it, I'm in two minds about getting one?

 

[CassidyAce]

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I haven't tried one but that looks a prime case of style over substance. They are clearly trying to sell it as part of a lifestyle: coffee house, country jaunt, pottering about town doing sociable things . . . All of which distracts from the fact that you could get a better, livelier bike, for less money, if you get a genuinely old bike. At the very least, try to test ride one before you buy. If you like it, all well and good, but I wouldn't be surprised if it looks a lot better than it rides.

And what the hell is 'vegan leather' supposed to be, aside from an oxymoron? I sometimes get the impression that marketing folk are so stupid that they believe the buying public are even more stupid than the excessive levels of stupidity they have reached themselves.