SteCenturion
I am your Father
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Who is Al Peculiar ?
Mountain bikers are sexier
- Thread starter Pat "5mph"
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the_mikey
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- South Gloucestershire
"Phwoarrr! check who's riding that sick whip" said no one ever, and yes I ride a Brompton.
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
On the plus side @Mikey , you will look proper dapper in your chino's & cravat.
Jody
Stubborn git
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Why is she on a BMX, then?In the interests of restoring gender balance to this thread, I submit to you the following:
Caroline Buchanan, an Australian mountain-biker.
What about Caroline Alexander, back 'in the day', or Missy Giove (USA, rode for Yeti)
Jody
Stubborn git
Great talent and I genuinely liked Missy but not my idea of attractive. What a shame that she binned her career off by smuggling weed round the US
milton?
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Surely they looked better in the 90's?
Eg;
Klein Attitude - with all those utterly gorgeous paint-jobs
Yeti ARC - even the team grey/blue looked oh so good
Pace Research RC100 - but, then I'm biased. as I owned one
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MarquisMatsugae
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A list of dreams
I had the GT tequesta this one below and loved it mostly for the paint job
but as a kid i always wanted this bike, but not a chance way too expensive and i was way too young
it seems nowadays it's all about generic bikes with generic paint jobs, lets be honest i would love to see white wall tyres again!
Richard A Thackeray
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Perhaps?, or reminscences?
I will still hold the RC100 up, as a symbol of radical thinking (of the era)
Externally butted tubing; easier to mill/pare the weight?
The chain-stays encouraged mud to sit though, on claggy courses/rides
If you asked, at the time, they would make you a custom frame
The split fork-crown; with individually replaceable fork-legs (also interchangeable with the later RC35 suspension forks)
The head-set; basically an upside down version of what we have today (saved -at the time- carrying big headset spanners, just a 10mm spanner & 5mm allen-key)
The only downside was the set stem length/rise, but when you ordered a new bike, they'd make the stem as you wanted
Bullseye crank-arms; exactly what Shimano do today, but the Bullseye wasn't as secure, as the only lateral 'stop' was a tiny shaped 'key', it'd have been far better with a cap, that screwed into an internally threaded crank
Hydraulic brakes; good, powerful, but...... they still had the clearance issues, & wouldn't accept an inflated tyre (I only used 1.5" tyres on mine & they wouldn't go past
The guides were plastic (& agreed, yes, 'sacrificial', but left water-ingress points on the top-tube
Grease-nipples; on bottom-bracket & head-tube, which accepted a normal -car- grease-gun (& later on, they were built into their own hubs, when they started producing them)
I know it was common practice many years ago, & I remember having an oiling-hole on a old road-bike, when I was young.
Not my bike, in the photos, below, just used to illustrate
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Try the RetroBike site/forum, f you don't already know of it?
Remember Onza Porcupines?
