Bike porn

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1996
15 years old, Perfect working Porn.

jersey, have a butcher at this 80's Specialized MTB with modern component;

Yep! Still looks like it would be grim to ride!

Looks the nuts.....but I'm afraid looks is as far as it goes! I love all the retro stuff for the nostalgia (having raced xc for most of the nineties) but nowadays I just can't see the practical use of owning something like this..... I guess thats why the whole 'fixie' thing got me turned on to bikes again, as you could incorporate all the retro gubbins and still have loads of fun on a practical level!
Might be 15 years old working porn, but give me a full bouncer and a hill in Wales any time...........ProN.

http://www.retrobike.net/forum/files/front_side_view_148.jpg
1996
15 years old, Perfect working Porn.

been following this discussion with interest, as have been thinking about going for a fully rigid inbred. Would such a bike be closer to modern MTBs or to the early steel ones being discussed?

if you get a few years out of mtb, then break it one way or another, you've done alright... crashing on a mtb is almost normal, it is about the fun then and there, a 1990s mtb is more of museum piece, and you are lucky if it lasts that long, regardless...

Yes, I like Jambon's bike too

I think it's great. Do you think he'd let me borrow it for.....a long time?

in the porn thread, get in!
Cheers guys.

Last page was tremendously shit though, but congrats anyway.

brilliant comment

you're welcome

Edit: Ah but you bike was posted 2 pages back, much better.

pleeeze can we haz more porn less discussion.

Can you explain how derailleurs have changed 'paradigms' in the last 15 years? Mechanically the principle behind them is the same as it was.

So I'd say your opinion was, essentially, worth shit.

paradigm being the number of gears needed, number of rings needed, etc... brakes, threadless headsets, the manner in which wheels are attached to bikes, the interface between the BB and cranks, chain guides, interchangeable dropouts, thru-axles. I was not talking abotu the fact that deraileurs are parallelograms.

anyway... yes they are all parallelograms, but a major shift is in the size of the deraileur and the size of the drive train. Much less chain is needed to get a range of gears nowadays, leading to smaller derailoerus. People rarely use three rings upfront also, and so the rear deraileurs can be even more compact. In fact, i alluded to this a few posts back. In the 90's no one could really understand why shimano thought MTB deraileurs had to be bigger, and so we ran 105 road deraileurs with road cassettes.

another major change has been in the the angle that the housing enters the derailleru. much less housing and bending is needed. Better shifting is noted, especially when going into smaller cogs.

Like it or not, some of us are nostalgic and would love to get their hands on something which they could not afford at the time i.e. the 90's MTBs in the previous few pages. I remember GT having a dual suspension thermoplastic bike (concept only IIRC), I still have a copy of the article which it appeared in somewhere but yeah, I would so splash out for one now if it appeared on the bay. Wouln't mind a Klein too, they were iconic bikes, coffee/tea? milk or without?

more porn less talk? ok

Coker V2 unicycle forks (36")

That's the equivalent of faping at broccoli.

hmm broccoli...
Hey unicycles are more "fixed gear" than all the crap posted here recently!

ace

yes

looks like the much prettier older sister of the Langster Steel though..

Fucking nice Langster that ^

Still pointless. The other way up would be better, but a straight line would still be best.

i like the bridge. i like the angles it creates. not sure why it needs to have "a point." the bridge of a bike, especially a track bike, is one of the places where you can play around and have fun with design

have fun with design

If you must have fun (and, personally, I'm against it) do it with paint where it doesn't compromise the structure, rather than with metal where it does.

Need I even say anything?

right thread?