Re: [CR]CR list time-period limits

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:55:42 -0800
Subject: Re: [CR]CR list time-period limits
To: chasds@mindspring.com
From: "Brandon Ives" <monkeylad@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <4399184.1044930990957.JavaMail.nobody@wamui06.slb.atl.earthlink.net>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 09:36 PM, chasds@mindspring.com wrote:
> There were many fine classic bikes, by any standard, made between
> 1980 and 1984...

I think it might have more to do with the explosion of mountain bikes and the decline of the lightweight and not really the death of friction shifting of non-aero cable routing. Also you've got to remember index shifting actually came before friction shifting. Personally I think the list should stop at about 1970 and the US bicycle boom. I think bike quality plummeted to bring the numbers of bikes up to fill sales. Beyond that anything in the 70s or after is really contemporary not really "classic." A majority of the list talks about bikes of the 70s and 80s because that's when most of the list became associated with cycling. It's a nostalgia thing not a quality thing. Of course this is coming from someone who started cycling in the bike boom but wasn't a teenager until 1982. So what do I know, except that dale is right when he say's everybody has different ideas about the "cut-off date."
ciao,
Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
SB, CA