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can't stop buying old mtb's lads, it's become a fucking obsession, just bought me 5th, a parkpre race bike for $1200, bidding on two more, a fat chance and a nice orange, that'll make 7. I keep telling myself this one will be the last and I'll sell a couple before I buy another, but deep down I know that's bullshit. Fortunately my financial situation allows such impulse purchases, I couldn't collect vintage cars at this rate of course, but there is something about buying a great old bike in mint condition and taking out on the trail, these bikes are peak bike, I don't care what anyone has to say about it, the way they look, feel and ride is unmatched by anything that came out in the past 15-20 years.
It's not that I'm anti anything new, I have a 2020 Norco Revolver and an S works Turbo Creo from 2017, both nice bikes and great fun, but there are somehow too refined, something has been lost in the same way new cars don't have the feeling of an old car. I shit myself on some of the trails round here on a 90's bike, whereas on the Norco I never feel that kind of fear, the feedback through the steel frame is part of it, the geometry which everyone knows about, it's far more exciting and rewarding.
I get to the bootom of a [particularly hairy section on my norco feeling almost calm and business like, there's some Adrenalin of course, but the insane buzz I get riding the same section on my Yo Eddy is of an entirely different order, I'm fucking laughing and shaking when I skid that fucker to a halt.
Can't wait to get the Parkpre out!
