FW Evans 90th Anniversary Special Edition Touring Bike Review - BikeRadar

i like the look of this one better, Raleigh Clubman cheaper to but same classic styling but fitted with tiagra groupset including STI's and brookes saddle only £950http://www.cyclelife.com/Product.aspx?pc=1&pt=14&pg=8074

How can you possibly describe a bike that weights 28 lbs as "light enough to be of little hindrance on the climbs"? How heavy would it need to be to be considered a hindrance??

I don't buy all of this retro nonsense, modern bike materials and design are just better, period, unless you are viewing them through sentimentally rose-tinted goggles or you really need a frame that rides like a well-sprung mattress.

Why is it nonsense? Just live and let live man. I've got a 20 year old Merckx, Columbus max, max forks and it's still a beautiful bike to ride.

What are those cables coming out of the top of the brakes? ;)

Center-pull brakes on a modern bike; this looks like a bike I would've wanted when I was 10. (That was in 1979)

Still, pretty neat though.

If I could only have 1 bike, it would look like this, minus the brakes and adding rack mounts.

@neeb Would find a 28lb bike a hindrance on the climbs? If you are a cyclist, and not the kind of person who spends a lot of money to have the lightest kit and never really use it, then I doubt you'd find 28lb a hindrance. If you have deskjockey legs though and value how your bike feels when you pick it up, instead of riding it, then I understand it would be a hindrance. There. Done. Someone bit at your Troll-Bait ;)

@yourmom - if you are a cyclist who is in any way competitive or wanting to push yourself I can guarantee you that a surplus 6kg (!!) will be instantly noticeable on climbs... I am 63kg - I know if I added a 6kg beer gut to that I would be going a lot slower up the hills! :-)P.S. not trolling, I just think it's daft to buy a modern bike that has none of the advantages of a modern bike just because of some weird nostalgia thing. But each to their own. @Waterford123 - fair enough if you have a 20 year old original bike and you enjoy riding it, but that's different from buying a brand new bike with technology that's 20 years out of date. Unless, as I said, you like that sort of springy old school steel ride. Again, each to their own...

Yay, I feel so validated by this page: I actually have an original (fairly tatty) Evans 531, a tourer with cantis (and ironically, soon, aero wheels, 16 spokes front, and 22mm tyres). And it's the most alive bike I've ever ridden: the front end just chats to you, so communicative, and so exciting, and pretty light too! It's Reynolds 531 too, I have a classic classic (as opposed to a future classic)! Not the stiffest tool out of the box, but a really lively cruiser. Absolutely brimming with character - that is, at certain speeds, and on certain roads. No retro-fetishism is going on here, I assure you!

Re: neeb: I guess it's horses for courses. I'd definitely not use anything like this for a hill-climb; I do think that you could still cut a lot of weight from this thing! But given the relative cheapness of bikes, I can imagine someone buying a PX Nanolight for hardcore speed devilry and something like this for the 'pure, number-free' experience.

Oh, and that is the most stunning bike I have seen in ages. The proportions are just so right.