You Know You Bought a Good One When...

[Bike Hoarder]

In the end... if it makes you happy, it cant be that bad.

Er.... Sheryl Crow?

 

[Err]

Constructive criticism would always be appropriate, ie "that would look great with X", but "that's shit and cheap" is never going to fly, imho.

 

[cherrybomb]

I like MTBR because the folks there, like me, take this stuff serious.

That, taken in the context of your earlier post, suggests that unless folks own/collect/restore (delete as appropriate) high end boutique bikes, they're not taking it seriously.

I'm sure that's not what you meant is it?

As for criticism. If you have something constructive to say, go for it. Personally there's lots of stuff on here that is far from being close to floating my boat; I just say nothing cos I don't see the benefit of comments that serve no purpose other than to let people know my personal opinion on someone else's work. BOTM is the place for expressing subjective feeling on whether you 'like' stuff or not.

 

[cce]

VRC's bikes tend to be straight off the catalogue pages

ours are straight out of adolescent boys dreams of shiny widgets

 

[cherrybomb]

Oh!..........Cool Karakoram by the way.

 

[orange71]

VRC's bikes tend to be straight off the catalogue pages

ours are straight out of adolescent boys dreams of shiny widgets

it was definitely a part of the british scene in the 90's that as soon as you got your low/mid-end bike you upgraded it with as many shiny bits as you could. You would never *ever* see an unadultered bike i.e. nobody kept theirs original. Most of us couldn't afford a high end bike straight off, so we just bought it pece by piece until the frame was the last to be upgraded

IMO that spirit lives on, here

 

[rumpfy]

Very interesting conversation.

It just goes to show that there is room enough on the internet for both of these forums to thrive and grow.

I see a lot of V-brake discussion and the one about triple clamp forks...just not my focus. Nothing V,R, or C about any of that.

While its no secret my attitudes towards this stuff, listen to Ameybrook...he knows his stuff and is an excellent balance of the two forums.

 

[GoldenEraMTB]

VRC's bikes tend to be straight off the catalogue pages

ours are straight out of adolescent boys dreams of shiny widgets

it was definitely a part of the british scene in the 90's that as soon as you got your low/mid-end bike you upgraded it with as many shiny bits as you could. You would never *ever* see an unadultered bike i.e. nobody kept theirs original. Most of us couldn't afford a high end bike straight off, so we just bought it pece by piece until the frame was the last to be upgraded

IMO that spirit lives on, here

That was the scene in most American locales as well; very well stated, and why I like this site.
I remember a matte red stumpjumper M2 I bought that came with the direct drive rigid fork since I couldn't afford t go for the blue suspended model...I ended up upgrading every single piece on that bike except the frame...till I took it all apart, and relegated the frame to beater bike status with left over parts from other projects....but it still held a place in my heart. Wish I never sold it, since it's been near impossible to find that same matte red stumpjumper frame again. I have a pic of it somewhere in beater mode.

 

[GoldenEraMTB]

Very interesting conversation.

It just goes to show that there is room enough on the internet for both of these forums to thrive and grow.

I see a lot of V-brake discussion and the one about triple clamp forks...just not my focus. Nothing V,R, or C about any of that.

While its no secret my attitudes towards this stuff, listen to Ameybrook...he knows his stuff and is an excellent balance of the two forums.

Hey...I just mentioned you above...true statement.
Without being a long time reader of the VRC mtbr archives, I would be lost about a bunch of things...it's just some of the other stuff I could do without.

 

[ridevintagemtb]

VRC's bikes tend to be straight off the catalogue pages

ours are straight out of adolescent boys dreams of shiny widgets

it was definitely a part of the british scene in the 90's that as soon as you got your low/mid-end bike you upgraded it with as many shiny bits as you could. You would never *ever* see an unadultered bike i.e. nobody kept theirs original. Most of us couldn't afford a high end bike straight off, so we just bought it pece by piece until the frame was the last to be upgraded

IMO that spirit lives on, here

I'm not get anywhere against the collective on this one.

What you just said is the exact reason I came to retrobike: To find / discuss bling parts for my low-end Lava Dome. However, repeating that process would seem like a rather empty hobby to me... finding a low end frame, and then buying a bunch of expensive stuff to hang off it. Pretty easy to do here,no? What's the challenge in that? I'd probably hit it pretty hard for four months or so, get through a bike or two, post 3000 messages here, then flame out. I've seen it happen many times over the past two years.

What I mean when I say I take this serious, is, I want people to challenge each other as a collective. Bring each others games up. I think it would keep things interesting...I'm too new to be old school here, but I've been around enough to see things get stale.

But that is, of course, just my opinion.