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Old 11-17-18 | 10:41 PM
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From: Greenville, SC / Asheville, NC

Bikes: '74 Raleigh Professional, '73 Raleigh Grand Prix, '84 Nishiki Medalist, '85 Gazelle Champion Mondial AB, '81 Peugeot Course, '79 Univega Gran Rally, '85 Torpado Super Strada

Originally Posted by davester
I ride with a group of here that has some 40-something vintage riders (I'm 64), and one vintage-rider group member just had his 30th birthday. The younger guys did not grow up with these bikes like me but are enamored with the aesthetics.
I live in the foothills, but not far from the Appalachian mountains so many of my friends ride mountain bikes. I’m definitely viewed as the crazy one for my affinity towards 40+ year old bikes. Everyone around here seems to ride modern road bikes.

If there was a stronger for sale market I would be cleaning up, but it’s slim pickings. The best bike I own spent 30 years in an Ohio attic before being brought local to me and put up for sale by the original owner. Serious biking is relatively new to this city.

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