Retro MTBs

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Anyone else got a thing for retro bike?

These are my two, ones a more modern frame but with some choice retro parts. The others just out and out retro single speed.

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I've got deore thumbies on the specialized, with a spare set for when they give up the ghost.

Edited by jamieandthemagic on Sunday 29th December 20:42

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Now they were a nice steel frame.

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Still wish I had this one.......





And wish I was still that skinny.

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E31Shrew said:

I've got one of these that I bought new in the 90s. Still waiting for it to snap in two!

that is more retro than a retro thing. I so wanted one of those back in about 1991, but I bought my Proflex instead.

always wondered if it would spark if you came off it & slide down the road.

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the_g_ster said:

Anybody got a fat tube Klein in the crazy colours? From memory they were pretty madly expensive.

My attitude at the beginning of this thread was just a few years too late to that white green pink combo they did.

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Ok, just to make this thread real retro. Here's some of my fav mint sauce piccies. Jo Burt was a creative god.

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Hobzy said:

As a bike shop grease monkey in my younger days I remember a few of those.

As for the Pace - I used to LOVE it if one of those came in the shop... beautiful. Closest I came was a Pace jacket
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I used to be a bike shop grease monkey too, worked at Madgetts in Diss (a Mecca in east anglia). We helped mike burrows develop the boardman lotus bike before its Olympic debut, and then helped with the subsequent road version.

The track bike was without doubt the most dangerous thing I had ever ridden, not an ounce of give, and steering from the elbows was completely new then. My mate who also worked in the shop was given a road version for 12 months as a test mule (he was a roadie and raced all over Europe.......... Whilst on the dole).

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Hobzy said:

jamieandthemagic said:

I used to be a bike shop grease monkey too, worked at Madgetts in Diss (a Mecca in east anglia). We helped mike burrows develop the boardman lotus bike before its Olympic debut, and then helped with the subsequent road version.

The track bike was without doubt the most dangerous thing I had ever ridden, not an ounce of give, and steering from the elbows was completely new then. My mate who also worked in the shop was given a road version for 12 months as a test mule (he was a roadie and raced all over Europe.......... Whilst on the dole).

Best job I ever had fun wise... money was dreadful though, and I don't think I ever made it out of the shop on pay day with the full wedge

Too true, sadly I knew it wasn't a long term thing. Was your boss tighter than a ducks arse too?

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aka_kerrly said:

^ cantilever brakes and toe clips, yep it's 100% retro alright!!!

Anyone on here got something with a U brake..................... The amount of time I used to spend stopping to unclog those f@ckers of mud.

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ewenm said:

hadenough! said:

Jesus, how old are you? Had my first mtb (a puch followed by a British eagle) in about 1990, even they had cantis.

I had an under-chainstay u-brake on an early MTB. Stupid design! (I'm 37).

Snap, falcon 1st mtb with bottom bracket mounted deore U brake, 38years old. Guessing that bike was around 1987/88 (it also had a girvin flexstem)

I'm sure my mate had the 1st edition of the GT tequesta and that had a U brake as well. They were stronger than the wide arch cantis, but always clogged up with mud. Or got mullered by the chain getting caught in them.

Edited by jamieandthemagic on Friday 3rd January 21:53

Edited by jamieandthemagic on Friday 3rd January 21:59

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Back OT, I have a picture in my mind of one of the first ally box section full susser when it came into the shop... would be about 1990? Anyone think what it could have been? Wasn't a big manufacturer.


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Offroad Proflex's were about in 1990, bought my 550 offroad proflex in about 1990. But they weren't alloy or box section.

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hadenough! said:

You lot are pioneers, I thought I got in there early but mountan biking in the 80s was groundbreaking, 34 here by the way and first mtb at 10. I must have been 14 by the time I got a flex stem...

Mine went

Puch
British eagle
Second british eagle
Dave Yates Diablo
Pro flex 856
Klein mantra race
Voodoo wanga singlespeed
Spot brand belt drive single speed
Kona dr fine for commuting

I still have the last 4 and my dad still runs my old Yates and pro flex.

He also has a pace rc200 and a kona singlespeed...

I so wanted a Dave Yates.

Wether it was the idea of custom built classy steel frames, or because he gave his bikes great names;.......
D.O.N.K.I.S.N.O.B (Dave's Oversize No Kompromise Interactive System. Never Obviously Beaten)

Edited by jamieandthemagic on Friday 3rd January 22:19

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chrisga said:

Anyone remember onza porcupine tyres? Pretty grippy but lasted about half a ride!

The white ones lasted only a quarter of a ride.

I remember when mbuk did an April fool, took a close up shot of a rubber soap pad with suckers, said it was a new onza octopus, made for hard rock surfaces to suck on to.

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Timbergiant said:

No unfortunately, I found the joys of sitting down not biked in ages, I am thinking about doing some this year though

I met up with Jez Avery this summer, he now does acrobatic moto x shows, my mate hired him as a side show to his monster trucks gig

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Might be selling this bad boy if anyone's interested?

jamieandthemagic said:

Anyone else got a thing for retro bike?

These are my two, ones a more modern frame but with some choice retro parts. The others just out and out retro single speed.