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Clean:
So,

I am agonising because I have picked up a nice NOS (repop) Tioga Beartrap 2, and my build requires a  Tange MX Headset.   ::)

There is no money to lose, as I can sell the Tioga for what I paid, as I got a fair deal from a RADster, and Tange MX2s are readily available on the bay for a similar price.....

The thing is I can't help feeling the whole situation is a little anally retentive.  :idiot2:

A headset, is a headset, is a headset, right?  ???

The BT2 is legendary in terms of reliability, the MX2 is more "factory correct" but is not actually correct as what I really need is an MX600, apparently (any ideas?)....  :-\

What would you do?  ???

What do you actually do?  ???

Do you agonise for ever over finding a correctly date stamped DC Cable, or do you just build the fooker?  ???

Come on.... 'fess up!  :knuppel2:

brummie:
haha
i have got worse the longer i have collected tbh

had a pile of repop stuff at one stage that has pretty much all gone now as the need to get period correct stuff grew

the feeling to preserve and keep things original has grown big time throughout the years i have been collecting too

all in all thougbh rich, this is a hobby so it needs to be enjoyed

do whatever makes YOU happy kid xx

markyp:
im not over fussy about headsets,nice to be totally correct but tiny parts dont bother me so much especially when they are a continuation of a part not a repro just a current but same version :daumenhoch:

kungfunky:
I'm doing another build thats going to be the same as an iconic vintage bike but theres no way I can get the tyres which is really pissing me off, so I've gone for the next best thing which look pretty similarish. It will be close but not exact  :tickedoff: and it will always annoy me until I find the right tyres  ;D

steve69:
All my bikes are between 80 and 85, as long as the parts are from that time period then that's fine by me.

lets face it, if you went in the bike shop in 84 and bought a frame set and some parts to go with it and the guy gave an 83 cable, would you have given him it back and demanded a cable with this years date on it ? I very much doubt it (in them days i doubt you even noticed they had dates on them). equally so, if you then rode round on that bike for a year and fancied changing some parts around for something a bit different, would you have gone back to the shop and asked if he had any of last years stock parts ? No, i didn't think so.

So if you're building a catalogue spec bike, then i guess it would make a difference. If you are not, who gives a stuff as long as it's era correct  :daumenhoch:

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