Confess about your geared ride

I'm not too bothered. I'm no fan of old steel frames for anything other than commute/beater duties. I don't care how posh they are - I have no interest in them.
I don't believe something being old makes it less likely to fail just because it has been around for 25 years. What if it has sat in a garage for 25 years doing nothing? What if it was at the bottom of the Thames for 10 years? Bike design and manufacturing has improved - I choose to embrace this improvement.

Like this..
http://www.lfgss.com/post1570389-23.html

I'm only funning dude, I like old steel frames, some more than others, I like the fact that the good or half decent ones were hand built. And the main reason they were phased out by manufacturers (apart from developments in materials and technology) is the fact that the good ones became too expensive to produce not giving a large enough profit margin for the CFO and any other number crunchers of big brand names / companies.

The Raleigh I'm building will be a posh beater / commuter maybe a few longer rides as well, it'll be perfect for this and I won't stress any over it having carbon or unobtanium nicht. In fact I'm pretty confident it'll still be going strong in another 25 years :)