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if i try hard enough i can just about understand the fascination of "old school" bikes,i even thought the recent mongoose os replica was cool!but this is beyond me!its a taiwanese nasty dressed up to look like an 80's icon, corporate haro pillaging the history books to earn a few more bucks now that mirra's dumped them?most of these will be bought up by old men who just want to sit and look at them whilst trying to re-capture there long lost youth, why else would you put a short 20.5 toptube on it? lets be honest here this is like digging up marilyn monroe and expecting her to be able to dance like beyonce knowles!are you all that blinded by a few stickers and a bit of shoddy chrome that you'd actually pay £250+ for a cheesey corporate shitter?haro may well be the stuff of legends but in the here and now they suck.i'll get my coat.
I'm not upset guys, I just bugs me when peeps spout off without truly knowing a full story... & i dont mean you Stodgy.My commentary is what powers these guys, its a proven fact, without my rambling they'd be nobody's!!! but feck me, what a mini ramp event eh? I wrote an article about it in Ride mag which said it was the best mini ramp comp ever & I'll stand by that til it gets bettered... possibly this year?!!!
im still of the opinion that whatever ride mag prints is what the younger generation tend to do.....i mean three years ago you had to have 14mm axles, now they are too heavy and 10mm is order of the day again....its all about fashion end of....like dave said too, whatever the big guns tend to do is the cool thing....if bestwick was doint triple flairs on a grifter, every fooker would want one....Dave
BTW - I also agree that we should be supporting the brands you mentioned plus a whole plethora of other cool small brands; Fly, Proper, Sunday, Fit, Superstar, etc, etc. They set the fashions and lead the design that influences next year's supermarket bikes - so, it's clearly a co-dependent relationship.
It`s good to have an opinion, and even better to share it
I'll say this; Lets all try and be nice eh? There's a lot of effort going into these things and a little bit of support from our end would be greatly appreciated....Rest assured it'll be a nice thing. Lets also be assured it wont please everyone, but then what does? We'll all ultimately have our own opinions and thats fine - but we're not the ones making them, are we? I think most people on here will like it