Consolidation and Lugged Steel Traditionalists?: Bikefanclub.com

Hey Kahuna,
Not to slight others interests but there are forums here that have evoked...uhh...very little interest. I know there must be limited space for discussion but I'm wondering if it might be possible to create a handful of broader headings.

I, for one, would like a place to talk to other Lug Nuts, you know, folks who think that the pinnacle of all bicycles is lugged steel. These bikes have all the history and they have never been better (Sachs, Rivendell, Mariposa, Hampsten, Della Santa, etc.). The tilt towards techy-smecky leaves me, well, largely uninspired though I like a handful of things that use technology in the post-C-Record era. Sometimes it would be fun to compare and discuss the various features of lugged bikes because, well, they actually have features to distinguish them. A "Calfee" [substitute your generic bike here] looks like a "Calfee." What's to talk about? Outfit them with a plug-in generic fork, put on the same handful of parts controlled by our current monopoly, and voila! Not much of a bike worth discussing, so the threads go in more interesting directions, no? I'm NOT picking on Calfee, let me be clear. But with most modern bikes the bikes themselves are so homogenous that only minor tweaks might draw our attentions. The lugged steels are the best example of bikes that don't look like they were made at a Burger King ("have it _your_ way"...yeah, sure, so that it is just a tiny bit different from anyone else's way...).

I'm not complaining, pal, just suggesting a Forum that might get us talking about bikes and riding those bikes.

yerpal, dbrk

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