Originally Posted by
mkeller234
^Well my guess is that it may be an issue that the manufacturer is unable or unwilling to re-tool to make all of the parts properly classic. So they just use what they have and pop sprinkle on some of the styling queues.
It's like the new retro Mustangs and Camaros. They look fine but have an odd fakeness too them.
Yes. Chris K. at Velo-Orange has described how he can't get his Taiwanese suppliers -- who no doubt make billions of bikes of diverse types -- to do a French-style fork bend. The best they can do is that mid-fork single bend (see the new mixte model on his blog). Though I think he's been able to get them to get the bend a little lower, they just can't do the nice, sweeping curve because they don't have the tooling.