Show us some Retrobike crimes.

[jimihendrix]

i do seem to have missed that one, despite being on here since 2006

enlighten me , please

Check out the seat tube, in the voice of Rolf Harris "can you guess what it is yet"

Here's a clue, head on the head tube, hands on the front drop outs, feet on the rear drop outs

There is a very colourfull San Andreas on here that pops up now and again thats not tacky or tasteless in any way shape or form, in fact i dont know why i thought of it on this thread.

Forget i mentioned it

in a father dougal voice , sorry am still not getting dat

Alright then, the seat tube has a big DOBBER on it

 

[Tad]

Ok, so not a Retrobike crime but a criminaly stupid looking bike no less, sort of a Kona Nunu meets Hardley Ablestone chopper from this listing here:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/KONA-NUNU-/200561 ... 2eb268b7e7

 

[marin man]

What a heap of s**t

wouldnt you be embarassed to try and turn a corner on that :?:

 

[mikee]

combine that with the op subject and wow

chopper man

i did say

 

[mikee]

just noticed the rear tyres flat
thats why it looks so odd

 

[marin man]

It looks odd because it is ......erm.........odd

I reckon it is yours mikee....and thats why you are sticking up for it

 

[lewis1641]

presenting my kona fire mountain.

first of all it was redone in white, add to the mix a huge shopping list. the fork and cranks alone would have retailed new at over the cost of a new fire mountain.

the bike was drapes in components well above the humble frame.

i thought it looked great but i was too scared to ride it. thankfully its now been broken and sold off.

 

[pete_mcc]

Possibly not a 'retro crime', more a historic folly:

That's me, with a fluoro bike, wearing a barbour type coat and a cheesy grin.

Note the exage mountain u brake on the underside of the chainstay about to get blocked up with snow.

 

[Neil]

Possibly not a 'retro crime', more a historic folly:

That's me, with a fluoro bike, wearing a barbour type coat and a cheesy grin.

Note the exage mountain u brake on the underside of the chainstay about to get blocked up with snow.

This "historic folly" highlights (to me at least) an aspect that normally goes silently by.

Much of the slagging off of bikes deemed as awful, these days is simply revisionist - retelling the history of what bikes should have been, or what people should have liked or appreciated, BITD.

I suspect the reality really is, though, that back in the 80s, most here would have been chuffed to bits to be riding around on the very bikes that are frequently labelled as "shite" these days.

Most of these poor handling bikes, with crappy parts, were of their time, in their time, and much of the comments, these days, seem to be more about rewriting cycling history as what some wish it were, rather than what it really was.

 

[marin man]

Ok, so not a Retrobike crime but a criminaly stupid looking bike no less, sort of a Kona Nunu meets Hardley Ablestone chopper from this listing here:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/KONA-NUNU-/200561 ... 2eb268b7e7

The seller claims it corners with no trouble at all :roll: