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    Do you think people will look at today’s bikes in 33 years and think…..man that is beautiful carbon, I wanna go for a ride. Steel will Always be in style and glad it is making a comeback.

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    1. Djamalfna on

      Carbon bores me. It’s like it has no soul or something. I can’t put my finger on it.

    3. Eightiesmed on

      That bike looks nice, but I prefer a bike that is actually nice to ride. No indexed gears on this one and I do a lot of riding in wet/snowy conditions, so those brakes wouldn’t do much. That’s a work of art, but I want a tool that lets me ride.

    5. Fr00tman on

      Climbing on my steel late ‘70s-early ‘80s road bike always bugged me, I could see the flex. I love how my carbon bike climbs. It also is comfortable on gravel. But I also think the return of vinyl is kinda amusing, as I jumped at the ability to have better dynamic range and no deterioration every time I played a record. I do appreciate the fact that when I put an old record on, I know exactly where in each song the big pops are, but there is something to be said for improving things (when it actually improves them, not just reduces costs or tries to manipulate things in order to sell more – like mastering CDs too hot in the ‘90s).

    6. Critical-Border-6845 on

      Yeah there will always be people who look at the past through rose coloured nostalgia lenses and think things used to be so much better.

      There’s really no reason why tubes made from an alloy of iron and carbon are more special or have more “soul” than a layup made of resin and carbon fiber.

    7. mankiw on

      >Do you think people will look at today’s bikes in 33 years and think…..man that is beautiful carbon, I wanna go for a ride

      probably, sure

    9. PobBrobert on

      Saying that steel is “making a comeback” shows you haven’t been paying attention to the bike industry.

      Plenty of companies have been making steel bikes in a broad spectrum of prices for every application outside of lightweight, racing-specific bikes where weight savings is key.

      Trek, Cannondale, Giant and Specialized (RIP the Langster, the last steel bike from a big 4 I’m aware of), might not make steel bikes anymore, but there are tons of options from other brands, and have been for the last 30 years.

    10. chockobumlick on

      It’ll be brand driven. IMO

      I have a colnago c40, and c50.

      Both are more beautiful than the new colnagos. I think they’ll be loved as much as now

    11. negativeyoda on

      Survivorship bias.

      There are cool modern bikes that will become classics and there’s crap from back in the day that’s largely forgotten. Any of us can find some classic stinkers where we’d wonder what the designers were smoking.

    12. Spare_Blacksmith_816 on

      looks nice, I have two steel Surly bikes and they look like crap 24/7 because they are not clear coated.

      I have a carbon fiber Bianchi in celeste that looks awesome.

      I wouldn’t get too hung up or hopeful about anything 30+ years into the future.

      just ride.

    14. w1n5t0nM1k3y on

      I think a lot of it has to do with many older bikes having a unique look. If that bike was in basic black, I don’t think mostg people would find it interesting.

      A lot of bikes made now don’t really put any character into their pain scheme. It’s just a single color with the manufacturer’s name printed on it. Sometimes they have better colour schemes, but they are usually reserved for the top end models.

    15. YoSupWeirdos on

      me on my tube alu bike with an old ass 3×9 ultegra looking at steel vs carbon like

    16. Dheorl on

      I look at old carbon bikes and think they’re beautiful; I don’t see why I wouldn’t think the same with current carbon bikes in the future?

    17. akanefive on

      It’s ok to say you like something without tearing down things that other people like.

    19. FixFix75 on

      There are a few steel bikes that I absolutely love, but mainly because those were my dream bikes a some 35 years ago and they stuck with me. I wouldn’t mind to own one or two of those. But I also doubt i’ll be riding them much. There’s no way they will be as comfortable as my carbon allroad bike that quite possibly has a frame that is as well built as those, accepts 38mm tyres and shows a good amount of seatpost which increases the comfort much more than those bikes possibly could.

      A modern steel bike I would definitely consider. Before buying my latest bike I was actually seriously considering either a steel or Ti Stelbel.

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