Originally Posted by KonAaron Snake

I spent the past hour and a half in a bike shop due to multiple spokes breaking on my triplet and I watched a sea of bikes, old and new, go by for sales and repair. Most of the older ones look boxy and clunky when compared to modern bikes. For every beautiful classic bike there are 5 sanford and sons, butt ugly, clunkers with hideous suicide levers and/or turkey levers. There is nothing as ugly or clumsy looking as suicide levers with non-aero cables flopping every which way. Dork discs are the only thing that approaches that level of silly looking. Vintage reflectors look like something best left to skeet shooting and bottle generators look like hamster toys. Old brakes are also chunky and cheap looking most of the time.

Modern bikes have far more variable tube shapes and designs...the curved TTs look elegant and there is a sleekness of lines that is eye catching. The reason people thing all c and v bikes are more attractive than modern bikes is simply because most old bikes aren't being counted and because we grew up with them. There can be plenty of aesthetic appeal to new bikes.