New or Old bikes? (looks wise)

[Xiorell]

Which do you preffer?

The high tech, crisp clean caad designed lines of carbon fiber ultra light space age road bikes?

Or, the charm of an old school tourer that makes you picture cycling down old cobbled streets, possibley on the way back from the bakers?

I ask as I was in the LBS the other day, looking at things I can't afford, loads of nice specialized kit etc. After eying up a Raleigh Avanti Comp (I really like that bike) and admiring all this new stuff, my eyes fell upon something from Dawes.
It wasn't actually an old bike but it looked old school, with the color scheme and the brown leathery bar tape and white wall tires. "Now THAT is lovely" I thought, and it occurs to me I spend alot of time looking at older bikes rather that the new stuff.

Which do you preffer?

 

[screenman]

Definitely new for me, I have both old style and newer style in the stable.

 

[ianrauk]

New for me. Just love perving over new bike bling.

 

[John the Monkey]

Some new bikes are ok. But personally, I hate all that sweepy curvy nonsense that seems to be done with tubes now. The straight, thin tubes of a nice steel frame outshine that for me.

I'd make an exception for the Cervelo S5, a butt ugly square monster of a bike that's insistence on function as main design consideration makes me love it.

 

[Willo]

I like my curvy allez but have decided that ideally my next bike will be a nice steel number; want the best of both worlds. Nice and 'thin' a la 1980s road bikes but with modern day shifters etc. Have a history, not necessarily through choice, with silver bikes and have grown to like that colour. Any ideas!?

 

[LosingFocus]

Old old old old old.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm old school, I like the old style.

 

[gbb]

Both...i have a 70s or 80s Raliegh Clubman and a modern Bianchi. I can see the beauty in both.

 

[tyred]

Old lugged and brazed steel for me please.

 

[Moss]

I love the new designs & lightweight carbon bikes with all the latest technology! But, there's a lot to be said for the retrobike with a Reynolds 531c frame and alloy components! Both types have an aesthetic beauty all of their own.

 

[wiggydiggy]

No preference really, I dislike jump/bmx purely because I like a seat but then again thats not what those bikes are for!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Steel bikes look the nicest, that said if someone was forcing me to accept a new carbon/titanium/aluminium bike as a gift I probably wouldn't say no.

 

[jay clock]

New. My number 1 bike (BMC) meets the bill.... http://mybmc.weebly.com/

 

[Moodyman]

There's something about steel that edges it for me.

A colleague rides on a steel MTB - it stands out from all the Alu MTBs next to it

 

[Cyclopathic]

Very much a slightly older style of bike for me. Beutiful straight steel tubes with lugs for preference. I got interested in cycling really in the 80s and still have a nostalgic penchent for the racers (what we called road bikes in the olden days) of that era. My first proper 12 speed was the Raliegh team panasonic replica (the very cheapest version they did) though what I really wanted at the time was the beutifulm Raliegh record sprint.

Although some modern bikes look ok I have come to absolutely detest all the writing and garbage that seems to be printed and painted on to them these days. A modest nod to the manufacturer is all that is needed. When people buy a car they don't usually go for one done up in all the latest rally colours for that manufacturer and I don't see why it is any more atractive on bikes unless of course it is for bragging rights and to show everybody else exactly what you are riding.

I think the next bike I get will be red. Or Yellow, I haven,t decided. And really if I was going to put anybodys name on my things it would be my own bloody name.

To sumarise. Old for me with a minimum of livery.