Originally Posted by
Velo Fellow
Thank you, Wogster! Human nature being what it is, I suppose we draw lines of resistance against change and it's underlying threat-- mortality. I prefer 57 Chevies, lugged steel bikes, and hamburgers with ketchup not salsa. Someday, my son may draw his line by preferring good old carbon to ...... well, whatever is the latest thing bike engineers have come up with then.
There's just no accounting for Taste. Or Olde Fartes.
Or in 20 years when oil is $500/bbl, it will be too expensive to make CF, which is essentially a petroleum product, and they will be making bicycles out of metal again....