vintage

What the heck? During the past week and a half, I've had two different people compliment my "vintage" bike. That's right.... Both people, different times and different places, called my bike vintage. Heck, I haven't heard word "vintage", since I stumbled upon the PBS television show Antique Road Show some years back.

So what makes a vintage bike? Just its age? What it looks like? What upgrades it has or doesn't have? Help me out here. I'm starting to get a complex. I thought one's bike was only as old as it felt and my bike only feels a year or two old.

Okay, so here's the gig.... My bike is a Specialized StumpJumper M2 FS. I won't tell you the year, because I want your opinion, if you saw this baby barreling down the trail, would you call it vintage??

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