Retro bike tech — our favourite bikes and kit from yesteryear

While we of course appreciate the latest and greatest road and mountain bike tech, we at Bikeradar also have a deep and unyielding love for all things retro.

From vintage bikes and tech to forgotten patents and strange classified finds, this is your best place to keep up to date with throwback stories.

1990's Scott Endorphin World Cup

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Choose between Team Blue Gloss, harking back to the CAAD3, 4 and 5 of late '90s racing fame

Cannondale gets nostalgic with limited edition F-Si Throwback framesets

Shimano Airlines was a totally unique system that used pressurised air in lieu of cables

Screw Di2, I want Shimano Airlines!

30th Anniversary Edition Zipp Super-9 wheels

Zipp’s limited edition wheel brings retro cool to TT efforts

The Raleigh Aero Pro Burner will party like it's 1983

Right the wrongs of your deprived childhood with Raleigh’s Aero Pro Burner BMX

The new Ekoï Legende is styled on the leather hairnet helmets of the '70s

Don’t lose your mind, this retro helmet is safe and modern

'The Weigh Machine' in all its glory

Respect your elders: turning back the clock at Eroica Britannia

John Tomac's Yeti C-26 complete with Tioga Disc Drive rear wheel and drop handlebar

Retro bikes from revived Malverns Classic MTB festival

8 Speed: bike gear from yesteryear

8spd: Bike gear from yesteryear

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It's gratifying to watch old things get a new lease on life

Rolling the dents out of a steel frame is incredibly satisfying to watch

Lake goes old school with new retro shoe collection

This custom Riva time trial bike has been sitting in a window near BikeRadar HQ for months now

Modern bikes can’t touch the timeless elegance of this vintage custom Riva

Innocently minding its own business, exactly the way a legendary commuter bike should

The greatest commuter bike ever

This Colnago C35 mountain bike was one of the first carbon mountain bikes

This whacky vintage Colnago MTB has no seat tube

Bryan Paxton has been collecting dropouts since 2013

This man collects steel dropouts and I love it

Who knew you could make a bike this weird?

eBay watch list: a recumbent tandem trike, 250 used bikes and a £9.5k Trek Madone

Check out Ric McLaughlin shredding the gnar on this rad(ish) 25-year-old GT

Shredding an EWS stage on a 25 year old GT mountain bike

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Campagnolo celebrated its 50th anniversary by releasing this seriously lush, limited edition groupset

eBay watch list: a £600 DVD boxset, an ENVE wheelset and a sick Ford Granada

Oh look, someone has plated a bike in gold and it's hideous. What a surprise

eBay watch list: a gold plated bike, an illegal e-bike and a Fiat Multipla

Shimano filed a patent for a 14 speed drivetrain way back in 1999 and it makes for some fascinating reading

Shimano 14 speed has been hiding in plain sight since ’99

What's old is new again: 6 surprisingly old technologies that may surprise you

What’s old is new again: 6 surprisingly old technologies