Originally Posted by
jjvw
New disciples too. I finally got around to selling the racing bike with CF bits and pieces 3 weeks ago. Now my youngest bike is an '83. Different tools for different needs. Different bikes for different expectations. Not everyone is interested in racing. Not everyone swoons over the latest hi-tech inovation.
There is a whole history of interesting things out there. New and old.
I'm a new cyclist; I'm a new disciple of steel and aluminum, too. Bicycling as a child, all I knew was high-tensile steel. Now I can try the good stuff...and it's a different world! Those dead-feeling plastic bikes just hold no interest for me.