On 02/28/2017 07:47 PM, Patrick Moore wrote:
I get the "How old is that bike?" question occasionally, but much more
often I get the "Wow, what a nice bike!" exclamation for both of my
Rivs, and from a surprising variety of exclaimers -- experienced
riders but also ordinary citizens. The Rivs are 18 and 14 years old
respectively, but I don't consider them any older in a functional
sense or even aesthetic sense than my 2016 Matthews.
If old means "worn out," then any bike that has been ridden until worn
out is old. If old means outdated as to performance, then I'd say you
have to go back at least to the mid '80s because of clipless pedals
and aero levers and cassettes and slant parallelogram derailleurs; at
least, that's when they became common.
But how hard is it to install clipless pedals and slant paralleogram
derailleurs on a bike? So 10 minutes work and that 55 year old bike is
now "new"?
I believe that these inventions were real benefits to cycling. If
"old" means simply "around many years," then any date is rather
arbitrary, no? Or at best, simply relative to something that came
earlier. New College, Oxford was founded in 1379, New College, Florida
in 1960.
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