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A new home for retro fans

Bomber - Amazed by Retro

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How about a wheelset with Hügi hubs? Or a Rocky Mountain RM6 frame from the good old freeride days? This - and much more - is available from vintage specialist "Amazed by Retro".

The range on "Amazed by Retro" is broad: There is a Tigra trouser guard, which is surely already of retirement age. There are also parts that may well trigger a "want-to-have" reflex for mountain bikers with an affinity for retro: Be it a Marzocchi Bomber Z1, a Race Face stem from the noughties, or original, hydraulic rim brakes from Magura.

"Amazed by Retro" sees itself as a webshop and ebay platform for the sale of retro bikes from the eighties to the two-thousands. Newer parts also appear, as well as memorabilia dating back to the 1920s.

The platform is also a collaboration, with a non-profit organization active in the field of work reintegration on board. It also runs a bike store and makes abandoned bikes reusable. Half of the proceeds from the vintage parts go to the collaboration partner, the other half to "Amazed by Retro", where jobs are to be created in the medium term.

"Amazed by Retro" was the brainchild of Marco Giarrana, a mountain biker and racing cyclist with a weakness for 90s mountain bike parts. Also on board is Franz Xaver Zierer, who is also infected with the retro virus. The business is managed by Studio from Scratch GmbH, already the umbrella company of Fair bicycle. . 


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