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Overheard a kid call a quill stem "vintage" and it hit me
I was building up an old steel frame last week and some young rider walked by and said my setup looked like a museum piece. I remember when these were just normal parts, not some retro treasure find - anyone else feel like the timeline on what counts as "old" has gotten weird in the last decade?
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blair_webb9d ago
Jumped right into building up a 90s Rockhopper last month and @noahmartin nailed it, the timeline got so compressed that a 20 year old stem is somehow vintage now. I remember swapping out stems for 130mm long ones back in the day and nobody called those historic finds, they were just parts. Honestly it feels like the moment disc brakes became standard everything before it got fast-tracked to antique status.
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the_sam7d ago
Wait, a 130mm stem was just normal back then? That's wild to me because I remember when 90mm was considered long and anything past 100 was basically a stretch limo for your bike. I guess I'm showing my age here but the whole disc brake thing really did mess with the timeline. Like, I still think of V-brakes as modern since that's what I learned to work on, but now kids act like they're from the dark ages or something.
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