Originally Posted by
nomadmax
Which is it?
"It's a crying shame big manufacturers don't make steel frame/fork, quill stem, down tube shifter, rim brake bikes anymore".
"That's a miserable excuse for a currently produced bicycle; the steel frame has a non-level top tube, drop outs that don't look like the old ones, the down tube shifters are friction only and the decals are all wrong".
It's no wonder to me why companies don't make bikes like this anymore.
+1
If I want a great steel 16 lb. Keeper of the Flame bike, I get one by Adam Eldridge (Wraith). Nothing like my Super Corsa.
If I want a great steel 18 lb. Keeper of the Flame bike, I get one by Adam Eldridge (Stanridge Speed) EXACTLY like the so-called classic great bikes. Very likely better than my Super Corsa, Merckx, Guerciotti, Battaglin, Raleigh, Colnago, or Basso.
I don’t get the hullabalooey. It may well be a better bike than it’s predecessor, and if it’s not, I don’t care. I can get better, or cheaper, or that one. It’s a bike.