A design positive....or negative?

[FishFright]

I wonder who first looked at a puddle of hot coal tar and thought " That would make a smashing soap" ?

 

[Globalti]

If you could go back to your youth and smell again some old familiar products you would be almost literally blown away by the smells. There is so much elf 'n safety paranoia nowadays that industrial perfumes have changed massively. Smell Brut or Imperial Leather and you will be smelling a mere pastiche of the original as the lovely musks and leathery notes have all gone. Our noses just don't encounter those molecules in normal life and it's said that if we could go back to smell the perfumes of the sixties and earlier, we would be amazed. This is why so many modern fragrances are watery and vaguely fruity.

 

[NorthernDave]

I wonder who first looked at a puddle of hot coal tar and thought " That would make a smashing soap" ?

Possibly the same person who was a bit thirsty and decided to milk a cow for a refreshing drink...?

 

[FishFright]

Possibly the same person who was a bit thirsty and decided to milk a cow for a refreshing drink...?

Cor he gets about a bit.

 

[Biff600]

I wonder who first looked at a puddle of hot coal tar and thought " That would make a smashing soap" ?

.....or the same person that saw an egg fall out of a chicken and thought, "I'll eat that" !!

 

[roadrash]

or who dug up a dirty spud and thought I will peel this cut it into thin strips, go kill an animal , melt all its fat , throw the strips of spud in for a bit and I will call them chips, im glad they did though

 

[Threevok]

Or the first person to have piles, find a dead shark on the beach and sit on it's liver

 

[SpokeyDokey]

What I want to know is are the centres of those discs really black on the Spesh in the OP?

 

[Grant Fondo]

I was wrong it isn't £75 it's £90!

https://www.specialized.com/gb/en_GB/road-kit/p/118708?color=214398-118708

Oh i thought you meant the bike.

 

[Adam4868]

What I want to know is are the centres of those discs really black on the Spesh in the OP?

Yep,it's a special edition,so a special specialized ! I know some don't like it but I do.
https://www.specialized.com/ca/en/s-works-roubaix-mclaren-dura-ace-di2/p/134255

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Or the first person who saw a sprout and thought it edible.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Yep,it's a special edition,so a special specialized ! I know some don't like it but I do.
https://www.specialized.com/ca/en/s-works-roubaix-mclaren-dura-ace-di2/p/134255

Gulp! Well its cheaper than a McLaren (just)

 

[Adam4868]

Gulp! Well its cheaper than a McLaren (just)

Pub bike !

 

[Cycleops]

Seems very reasonable and practical , have you seen a Rolls Royce option list?

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

I haven't read the whole thread but AFAIK nobody has mentioned the word "fun". Modern bikes are built to be light, smooth-riding, comfortable and fun to ride, which is why so many people who cycled as children have come back as born-again cyclists..

Presumably all the born again cyclists rode steel bikes when they were children, and still had fun riding them? I rode steel bikes as a youngster and enjoyed it. I still ride older steel bikes as an adult - and I still enjoy it. The fun factor has always been there - so long as you actually enjoy riding in the first place. All my bikes are smooth and comfortable to ride, even the skip ones, and some of them are reasonably light. Are you trying to say that as a kid you could have fun riding a steel bike, but as an adult you can't?