Originally Posted by
mikeybikes
This! That and old bikes just look cool.
Old bikes do look cool! A fashionable women's magazine even recommend hanging one on a small apartments wall.
And yes... they meant buying a cool old bicycle and hanging it on the wall.
I am an old early-boomer retired guy. And like many of us I have ridden a bicycle on and off since I was a small child. We rode our bikes to school when I was a kid. I had a Schwinn Varsity in 1964... and it changed my relationship to bicycles forever. I like having a 10 speed with down tube shifters hanging on the wall of my man-cave. I like the way they look. I like the memories they invoke. I enjoy wrenching on them.
Sometimes I even ride the old steel. And it is enjoyable. Maybe I am different in this regard, but mostly I ride modern new or newish bicycles. I can't guess the future of vintage or even modern bicycles.