>>1132526>Smaller sizes of tire made more sense with the more compliant steel road bikesYou know what's even better than a compliant steel frame with skinny tires? A compliant steel frame with some fuckin' nice 35mm tires; they fit just fine under my good ol' 9-speed era medium-reach Shimano dual pivot calipers, pic related.
>Now all the tubing is larger, frames, bars stems, everything. Tires are wider, hubs are wider. Going from 126mm to 130mm hubs wasn't so bad, but now disc hubs are a brutish 142mmThere are plenty of nice frames out there still being made out of non-oversize tubing; you can even get 'em with threaded headsets if you want. Nitto still makes super high quality quill stems for 26mm handlebars, and the handlebars to match. You've just gotta be willing to venture past the big box manufacturers.
>Polished silver components are gone. Everything's black. It's sad.I'll agree with the lament about black components, though. Polished aluminum all the way for me plz; most components have *some* silver options but certain bits (rims, for instance) are difficult. I wish you could still buy mountain bike components that weren't styled like they're trying to fit into one of Michael Bay's Transformers movies.
>As much as i love old racing bikes, they were designed to be as light and fast as possible. Riding them over modern bikes seems against their very ethos.I don't understand what you're babbling about here.
>>1132527>>1132528>>1132530>>1132533>>1132536>>1132537>>1132539>>1132542>>1132544>>1132548>>1132550>>1132554>>1132557>>1132582>>1132594>>1132595>>1132597Oh, I get it now. You don't actually prefer riding on tires skinnier than a stripper's G-string; this is a "muh nostalgic aesthetics" thread.
