Originally Posted by
DQRider
Exactly. To illustrate this, think about cars for a moment, or even motorcycles. Every single retro-styled modern vehicle that has come out has been an instant hit: New Beetle, Mini, Fiat 500, or even the Singer Porsches (Triumph Bonneville and some Ducatis, for the motorcycles). What do they all have in common? Old-school styling with modern functionality.
One of the things about many of those "classics" is that they were really lousy cars.
The Fiat 500, VW Bug, and Mini Morris/Cooper were all the cheapest of the cheap. The "people's cars". Made cheap, and the factories cranked them out by the millions.
The modern version of the retro classics are very nice, upgraded vehicles, with a bit of retro flair.
I suppose in the bike world, it would be like making retro Huffy bikes to Colnago specs.
There is, however, a lot of appeal of the lugged frames, and perhaps that will endure.
Colnago still has their lugged steel division. Bianchi is making the
Eroica.
Now, I still wonder what the market is for a $3500 copy when the originals are available for much less. But, I also have a love/hate relationship with old junk
