I think it's long past time to retire "retrogrouch." All it ever was
was a term of derision directed at those who were too independent-minded
to fall into a swoon at the mention of any gimcrack marketed as
"something new" (in a field where little, if anything hasn't already
been tried before at least once, if not many times over, most likely
more than a lifetime ago).
On 02/18/2014 03:44 PM, Shaun Meehan wrote:
I get it. Everything old is new again, to the point where the
"retrogrouch" is the guy/girl that's refusing to try the new old stuff
because the old stuff is too new-fangled for him or her. Plus ça
change and so forth...
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com
<mailto:tapebu...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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?
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