Greetings fellow bike enthusiasts,
I got going when "ten-speed" bikes had cotter pin cranks and downtube shifters. I have never been a racer and would be a commuter, occasional tourist, general utility and grocery shopper sort of rider.
Currently I have five bikes here in my living room, two from the early '80s and the other three being in various ways modern replicas of those earlier bikes although two of them are still only framesets and during the past several years I have done bicycle component business with Amazon, eBay, bike shops, and dealers to collect my favorite components from the '80s, '90s, and '00s. However, one of those two framesets not only uses older components but is my first bike having disc brakes and thru-axles, the others all having rim brakes, and they all have been or are being built with 3x mix and match gear trains, etc., and non-index shifters, while carefully marking and storing any original components.
I got going when "ten-speed" bikes had cotter pin cranks and downtube shifters. I have never been a racer and would be a commuter, occasional tourist, general utility and grocery shopper sort of rider.
Currently I have five bikes here in my living room, two from the early '80s and the other three being in various ways modern replicas of those earlier bikes although two of them are still only framesets and during the past several years I have done bicycle component business with Amazon, eBay, bike shops, and dealers to collect my favorite components from the '80s, '90s, and '00s. However, one of those two framesets not only uses older components but is my first bike having disc brakes and thru-axles, the others all having rim brakes, and they all have been or are being built with 3x mix and match gear trains, etc., and non-index shifters, while carefully marking and storing any original components.