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hippy
I was referring to the dawn of retrobike and all that stuff, when the industry was marketing full-suspension, overly heavy, overly complicated bikes and many people decided they'd rather have an old Klein, Merlin, Bontrager, Rocky Mountain etc. Today if you want a decent bike you seemingly have to pay a few grand for hydraulic disc brake graveltastic dropperposty shininess, when a light, quality steel old fixed/single speed with 25c tyres will be more fun around London, far cheaper and in the eyes of this old hipster, cooler.