It's "vintage" if I say it is.

If/when I get a Rivendell, I'll post it here. Because I can.

For the most part- there are very few militant "vintage-ites" here to mess up everyone's experience and excitement about the stuff we love.

There's things that have a style/function/aesthetic that are sort of tied to the time period in which they came. Stuff from before the mid 90s has a style that can be described as "classic." Once you start getting into primarily welded frames and bulbous and swoopy and black and plastic-y components... it starts to stray farther from that "classic" aesthetic.

I kind of use the end of Suntour around 1994 as a sort of cutoff, for me. I'm thankful that there were some components that held on to a polished, less bulbous style for longer... Ultegra 6500 cranksets, 6600 derailleurs and Dura Ace 7800 still looks nice- after that... not so much. IMO and all that.