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Theres a certain amount of 'chasing the past' with retro stuff, i have a bunch of retro cars, and a few bikes now, and TBH a lot of it goes back to times I enjoyed. 
However I'm not sure going way back when and doing the same thing again appeals 100%, its like they say never meet ya heroes n all that.
Anyways, So this site has recaptured my entusiasm for buying/speccing/collecting old bikes and getting out there n riding.
TBH anything newer than 1994 does little for me as I was out of it all then. :?
So, I chose my new retro Muddy Fox as it reminds me of the cool kids of mountain biking, the stuff i appreciated, keeping it real and being just cool. there was a lad i knew when we went away in the caravan with teh Volvo club. he had a pink Seeker Mega and it was way cool, kitted out IIRC with 500LX and deores in a no nosense package (which was hi spec to me at 13/14Y.O). Compared to my then Trailblazer definately so. I upgraded to a crazy paint GT after that, but was never as cool as the MF or the other stuff like Rock Mountain, Alpine stars, Pace etc etc.
Expect a couple of retro builds coming up from me. The Socerer Mega will have a few twists here and there, not a direct revisit to 1991
most surprising is my recent need for a modern classic like after seeing that Charge Duster, a modern but classic XC beast is on the cards which is a shocker!
I do ride on me bill now Ive moved and i really wanna see some countryside at speed, not just monkey about int woods on a sunday aft 'back home'
However I'm not sure going way back when and doing the same thing again appeals 100%, its like they say never meet ya heroes n all that.
Anyways, So this site has recaptured my entusiasm for buying/speccing/collecting old bikes and getting out there n riding.
TBH anything newer than 1994 does little for me as I was out of it all then. :?
So, I chose my new retro Muddy Fox as it reminds me of the cool kids of mountain biking, the stuff i appreciated, keeping it real and being just cool. there was a lad i knew when we went away in the caravan with teh Volvo club. he had a pink Seeker Mega and it was way cool, kitted out IIRC with 500LX and deores in a no nosense package (which was hi spec to me at 13/14Y.O). Compared to my then Trailblazer definately so. I upgraded to a crazy paint GT after that, but was never as cool as the MF or the other stuff like Rock Mountain, Alpine stars, Pace etc etc.
Expect a couple of retro builds coming up from me. The Socerer Mega will have a few twists here and there, not a direct revisit to 1991
most surprising is my recent need for a modern classic like after seeing that Charge Duster, a modern but classic XC beast is on the cards which is a shocker!
I do ride on me bill now Ive moved and i really wanna see some countryside at speed, not just monkey about int woods on a sunday aft 'back home'
Unlike many on here I never stopped riding, I've been at it constantly since 1988 and it's taken me in many different directions. I stumbled on Retrobike from STW whilst looking for a cheapo way to keep my Kona singlespeed on the go. I then planned to sell on some stuff that I was not going to use... but I got sucked into the nostalgia a little too much and rather than sell my old fancy bits I ended up buying a frame to hang them on.
Finding this site made me think about the rides I used to do on my old XC type bikes as opposed to the bigger bikes and terrain I usually ride now. I broke all my bikes back in the day, but my biggest regret was not getting a custom frame built. I was very close to commissioning a Greg Fuquay but I tended to run out of time because my frames broke and I needed something quick - time with no bikes is like a prison sentence for me.
A few days after posting on here about lusting after a Fuquay, or a Dave Lloyd CATS WISKAS, a Chas Roberts DOGS BOLX or a Dave Yates DONKIS NOB up pops a WISKAS in my size on ebay.
One of the shops up here used to sell Dave Lloyd frames and I have ridden a few... although I raced for a different shop we were all good friends. I had been thinking about a new custom steel frame but I didn't have the funds, the Lloyd link was tenuous enough for me that I might have had one back in the day, so I did the deal and got the Lloyd. It's been a labour of love to build it up in suitable clothing. Back in the day I was a Shimano XT kind of guy - just give me the bits that work, last a long time, and can be replaced reasonably when I bend them. I did think about building XTR and pimp but that is not what I would have done back then; so I've tried to build it as if I had owned it all this time and it had grown organically with me. Most important is that the bike has to function and be usable, no garage queens for me... and the Lloyd has turned out to be much as expected, a real old school twitchy race bike which is alive under you and urges you up the climbs before scaring the crap out of you on the descents-
I have no plans to build any other bikes or add to my collection - I'll stick to riding the ones I have - but I do love to see other peoples bikes which is why I hang around here- some of the garage queen builds have me banging my head on the wall as I know they will be awful to ride, as they would have been back in the day with those bits on them... but it's good to see them. I suppose it's a bit like the weightweenie site where you see all the super light project bikes that would never survive a loop of my local forest (certainly not under me anyway...).
I love mountain biking and mountain bikes, but it's mostly the riding for me.
Finding this site made me think about the rides I used to do on my old XC type bikes as opposed to the bigger bikes and terrain I usually ride now. I broke all my bikes back in the day, but my biggest regret was not getting a custom frame built. I was very close to commissioning a Greg Fuquay but I tended to run out of time because my frames broke and I needed something quick - time with no bikes is like a prison sentence for me.
A few days after posting on here about lusting after a Fuquay, or a Dave Lloyd CATS WISKAS, a Chas Roberts DOGS BOLX or a Dave Yates DONKIS NOB up pops a WISKAS in my size on ebay.
One of the shops up here used to sell Dave Lloyd frames and I have ridden a few... although I raced for a different shop we were all good friends. I had been thinking about a new custom steel frame but I didn't have the funds, the Lloyd link was tenuous enough for me that I might have had one back in the day, so I did the deal and got the Lloyd. It's been a labour of love to build it up in suitable clothing. Back in the day I was a Shimano XT kind of guy - just give me the bits that work, last a long time, and can be replaced reasonably when I bend them. I did think about building XTR and pimp but that is not what I would have done back then; so I've tried to build it as if I had owned it all this time and it had grown organically with me. Most important is that the bike has to function and be usable, no garage queens for me... and the Lloyd has turned out to be much as expected, a real old school twitchy race bike which is alive under you and urges you up the climbs before scaring the crap out of you on the descents-
I have no plans to build any other bikes or add to my collection - I'll stick to riding the ones I have - but I do love to see other peoples bikes which is why I hang around here- some of the garage queen builds have me banging my head on the wall as I know they will be awful to ride, as they would have been back in the day with those bits on them... but it's good to see them. I suppose it's a bit like the weightweenie site where you see all the super light project bikes that would never survive a loop of my local forest (certainly not under me anyway...).
I love mountain biking and mountain bikes, but it's mostly the riding for me.
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