What do you hate seeing on a gorgeous retro bike?

[We_are_Stevo]

...and just to add insult to injury

...me on my Scott BiTD with FAT SLICKS! 1.9 Tioga City Slickers no less. :twisted:

How many times do you see Roadies mending punctures on the verge because their skinny tyres can't cope with the shite state of todays roads?

I didn't get punctures in those...

 

[Rod_Saetan]

I see so many Charge Spoons on bikes here that the owners have otherwise put a lot of care and attention into - laziness.

 

[Raging_Bulls]

Nothing wrong with fat slicks, Stevo. If the bike spends a lot of time on the road, they're the only sensible option.

Those Tiogas were awesome. IIRC they only changed the design recently, after 20-ish years of producing the exact same tyre.

 

[mikee]

i might read this thread over the next month

the recent phrase "the shit got real " from the will smith dictionry
comes to mind ,for some reason

 

[Woz]

I don't get the mudguards - other than as ornaments, what are they keeping clean?

Their brackets?

Those kind of guards do way more than you'd think. Used to be very popular on road bikes.

I had several road (/ "racers") bikes in the 80s with that sort of thing on, so I have frequent, reoccuring flashbacks of their efficacy.

Suffice to say, they help keep their brackets clean...

I'm largely recovered from the trauma, now, but it's been a long, rocky, and torturous, not to mention expensive, journey of the usual - you know, pills, therapy, self-help CDs.

I distinctly remember taking mine off an old PUCH; mainly because it was rattling when taking the off-road short-cut to school and I couldn't actually figure out what they were acheiving since I would still get *iss wet through when it rained.

The joy and sense of liberation upon removal was life changing.

 

[Neil]

Nothing wrong with fat slicks, Stevo. If the bike spends a lot of time on the road, they're the only sensible option.

Those Tiogas were awesome. IIRC they only changed the design recently, after 20-ish years of producing the exact same tyre.

One of my bikes still has some skinwall City Slickers on.

I'm guessing that the design must have become "open source" because I see cheapies in Halfords with the same tread pattern.

 

[Coleman]

Top 3:

1. Saddle angle/position to cock.
2. Badly routed cables.
3. Can't think of a third.

The first two are just lazy set up and/or wrong size bike.

I do think that some builds are more that a some of the parts though - nice size frame, choice components, well built.

Conversely some bikes fall short of expectations, £2K of parts that don't have any soul grate on me a bit - but it's just my perspective.

The main thing is they get ridden - they all look better dirty

 

[We_are_Stevo]

Nothing wrong with fat slicks, Stevo. If the bike spends a lot of time on the road, they're the only sensible option.

Those Tiogas were awesome. IIRC they only changed the design recently, after 20-ish years of producing the exact same tyre.

One of my bikes still has some skinwall City Slickers on.

I'm guessing that the design must have become "open source" because I see cheapies in Halfords with the same tread pattern.

Schwalbe City Jets are an exact copy...

 

[Neil]

I don't get the mudguards - other than as ornaments, what are they keeping clean?

Their brackets?

Those kind of guards do way more than you'd think. Used to be very popular on road bikes.

I had several road (/ "racers") bikes in the 80s with that sort of thing on, so I have frequent, reoccuring flashbacks of their efficacy.

Suffice to say, they help keep their brackets clean...

I'm largely recovered from the trauma, now, but it's been a long, rocky, and torturous, not to mention expensive, journey of the usual - you know, pills, therapy, self-help CDs.

I distinctly remember taking mine off an old PUCH; mainly because it was rattling when taking the off-road short-cut to school and I couldn't actually figure out what they were acheiving since I would still get *iss wet through when it rained.

The joy and sense of liberation upon removal was life changing.

See, this child was lucky.

The SPKWRM (Society for the Protection of Kids With Retarded Mudguards) would like to help more children before it's too late, and they descend into a state of self-loathing and insanity. For just a small monthly donation of £278+VAT you could help save more young cyclists from this horrible trauma.

Act now, before it's too late.

Don't let another child suffer the same trauma as the hateful, chimp-looking one, with the t-shirt that's not really pink, it's just a trick of the light... ahem.

 

[JustKev]

My No1 dislike on a nice retro bike is a rider. But then I like to hang them on a wall.