Here’s how the 1980s got its colorful look

[noahdjango]

I found a few more. I closed the original tab but I think it said they’re a 1989 model. white saddle, bar tape, and cable housings! (purple one has an aftermarket saddle)

[Melz2]

@noahdjango

I note with some embarrassment that the last one was mine

Mine was the second one from the bottom.

Don’t judge me.

[fuzzyfungus]

So “the 80s; because brutalists couldn’t figure out how to make clothes out of reinforced concrete”?

[Daaksyde]

the 80s in one picture:

[Melz2]

Wow, the rendering and perspective are just awful; I concur that IS quintessential 80’s right there…

[noahdjango]

I think that one is the most quintessentially 80s-looking of them all. Neither good nor bad. Dated, sure. But the colors theme nicely. Mine’s just plain ugly and stupid. Bright orange and purple is a bad look. It clashes. “Video Rock”? It’s bad.

[Melz2]

*lolz

We should totally have an ‘Ugly Trapper Keeper’ thread…

[noahdjango]

there’s some precedent for that. we have a Trapper Keeper nostalgia thread.

[Melz2]

Of course, there is.

I should have known…

*lolz

[gadgetgirl02]

Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks?

[nungesser]

I adore that terrible movie. Coke-dealing motorcycle ninjas vs. a tae kwan do rock band!

[sockdoll]

I went to design school in the 1980s, and I always got a Memphis vibe from Pee-wee’s Playhouse.

Pee-wee's Playhouse

[FGD135]

Did you say… Memphis???

[FGD135]

Anyway, you can’t discuss Memphis without mentioning

Ettore Sottsass