This response is also tongue-in-cheek. tongue in cheek, tongue in cheek. Since the new fad is for super flexy bikes made from undersized skinny tubes, who is the retrogrouch in this picture? The young kid who is trying this new flexible frame idea, having ridden stiff road bikes for the last 10 years? Is that kid the retrogrouch? Or is the retrogrouch the person who refuses to be open minded about the new fad for more flexible bikes, because he (or she) is programmed with the sales pitch "you don't want a bike that rides like a wet noodle" that they first heard 30 years ago?
I don't know the answer to that tongue in cheek question. I own two bikes with 'undersized' 28.6mm diameter downtubes. They were both made recently. I bought them because I wanted to try out this new flexy thing. I like them both. I also like my other bikes that have 31.8mm diameter downtubes. Am I a retrogrouch because flexiness is the exclusive domain of old bikes, even if they were manufactured recently? Or, since I haven't made up my mind, am I not a retrogrouch? Or, since I call a 31.8mm downtube "OS", am I a retrogrouch, derisively insulting my own bikes? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
