 Pay over a grand for one ?
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 I had a play on one at a shop just before Xmas. It brought back a lot of memories but I'd have to be a lotto winner to part with £1,100 for one.
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 New old Stumpy - Would you ...
Are you aksing us if we would have sex with it?
Whats next - Retro Stumpy - what makes a good one?
I agree with Nobby - I would have to be on crack (or selling crack) before I bought one of these.
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Why are you obsessed with sex XC ?
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 If i was wanting to waste some cash, i might pay that for an original one in decent nick. Or one restored with original parts.
Its fundamentally quite an ugly bike.
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 Why not buy one of those 2 for £70 bikes from your weekly paper. Then slap some X0 kit on it and kabam.......Retro Stumpjumper for a lot less.
Its shite and i think specialized are taking the piss. At least orange have made the new clockwork a quality bike that is there to be ridden. This has been designed for one thing, to be stored in a box.
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 I take it you don't drive a 'new Mini' or 'new beetle' then Hobo. People imported Brazilian built Beetles and Combis when they stopped German production. Not my cup of tea but Specialized will probably sell a few and remind people they were the first to mass-produce affordable MTBs even if they don't.
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The 'new mini' & 'new beetles' were not built on the same basis as this new stumpy though were they. The new Clockwork from orange would be a closer comparison, latest technology & specifications made to look * feel like the older model.
This is just a regurgitation of old everything. Anyone that buys one will have either more money than sense or be barking mad imo.
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 You can still buy a 1970's style VW bus and people do pay good money for them. Nostalgia makes people make choices which seem crazy to most people.
I personally wouldn't buy one of these new old Stumpies but thats because Spesh means absolutely nothing to me. I might think about one of the new old Burners because I had one as a kid.
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 I kind of agree, Mountain bikes have moved on, in terms of materials design and components, I'm sure this bike will be pretty nasty to ride compared to a more modern bike.
It's basically an advertising gimmick so that Specialized can say 'oh, looky here, aren't we clever, we made the first mass produced mountain bike, let's all give ourselves a well deserved pat on the back'.
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 1" steerers remind me of the bad old days alright... I've lost count of the number of 1" steerer tubes I've bent or snapped...
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 You don't think anyone who will buy one of these would actually ride it do you?
Nostalgic rubbish IMO. A few Spesh enthusiasts will have one as a collectors item and the rest will be on eBay in 2 years time.
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 We have one in the shop,for the shop-display only. I can't imagine we'll sell any at that money.
And IMO its ruined by having a modern chainset etc. The buyer would need to get on ebay and get some thumbies and a suitable matching chainset. That's how the shop one will be when we get round to it.
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 Didn't Specialised do this 25 year anniversary thing last year? I'm sure I remember something very similar anyway...
Oh, and £1100? You'd have to be mad.
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 So basically, it's a £60 Motorwold budget Rigid bike bike with XT gears, for stupid money.
Does remind me, of why I wasn't into MTBing, 25years ago though, and pretty much no one else.
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Looking at it, I'm wondering if my mates, really old MTB he doesn't use anymore ( De Logo'd ) is a original model, it's got thumbies and all the rest of it.
And technically it's mine, as I swapped him for my old carrera, will have a close look at, could be worth some money :)
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 Each to their own I say. I used to own several old VW busses and Beetles, they were freezing in winter, needed loads of petrol, were in the workshop more than on the road sometimes and one nearly killed me when I half passed out at the wheel when the heat exchangers started pumping carbon monoxide into the driving compartment. But I LOVED them! A friend of mine has bought one..the spesh bike that is.. (he works in my LBS) but then he has also got a Fat Chance, as well as an ancient Merlin. Another guy who I went out riding with last year collects mountain bikes from the 80's. All original stuff with dayglo paint jobs all in immaculate condition. OK it was his home turf but he showed us all a good clean pair of wheels on most of the ride and it was pretty techinical too and all that with canti brakes and no suspension of any sort!
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 Keswick Mountain Bikes have an old rigid P7 for sale at the moment, £150.
JD, I have some mint DX thumbies if you're interested (one on an XT clamp)...
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 What I'm wondering is why they did a half-assed job on this at all. Either go the 'all modern but in an old style' route of the new Clockwork or go for the real replica.
Yes I know that nobody makes most of the components nowdays, but its a 25 year old design FFS. Surely none of this stuff is still covered by patents so just get some engineering firm to copy the old chainsets etc. Not cheap, but then a reckon to the right people a true replica would be worth rather more than £1100......
And why the hell did they use XO? I'm sure thats half the reason for the ridiculous price but Deore would have been sufficent for the sort of use one of these will really get. Hell - even Altus stuff is actually better than the original Stumpies drivetrain!
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