Wow. Great topic. How far back to I go? Well, let's move from beyond the Stingray years into when I started to want a road bike. Back then they came in lugged steel, fillet brazed steel, welded or Schwinn's electro-forged construction. Lugged and fillet brazing were cool and the hallmark of quality (not really, but it was easy to generalize when I was 13). Basically, the bikes I think are great now are pretty much the bikes I thought were great then. I made a detour 1992-2000 into racing and got into brifters, dual pivots and skinny hard tires; I quickly got over that after I stopped racing so that I could go back to enjoying riding a bike.
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