Purple chainring bolts, Part 2
It has never been so easy to get sentimental over how good things used to be. The lack of other things to do during the long evenings of lockdown has led me to have an unprecedented amount of time to drink too much and think about things. When the only things you're allowed to do are work, walk and ride your bike, nostalgia forms a nice cosy rose-tinted safety blanket to keep the darker thoughts at bay. It's so easy to look back to a time and pretend everything was brilliant. From today, the early 90s in cycling look like a golden age of optimism and hope. With each passing year, huge leaps were made in bike design and performance, and each generation of a product would show a significant development (a stark contrast to today's world of marginal gains, where it seems with each thing gained, a little something is lost). One year it might be threadless headsets, the next an extra gear, integrated shift levers, hydraulic brakes... Maybe it was summer all the time. Everyone ...
