Old school is the era in which you were teenager, so for me it'd be the 80's. That's old school. I bought my 6-speed Gardin Quatro back in the mid-eighties. I remember the ill-fitting spandex shorts and uncomfortable, itchy jersey, lace-up shoes with toe clips. Come to think of it, nothing fit very well on me back then, nor very comfortable. Maybe that's old school.