roccobike

A quick trip over to the Road forum will validate the author's concerns. The advocates for disc brakes and electronic shifting will beat the drum until you are deaf. I'm quite confident my late model Tarmac will be a C&V bike before it's anywhere near 25 years old. And when you look at MTBs, it gets worse.
One look at the number of MTB models, styles, wheel sizes, suspensions, variations in fork design points out how absurd the marketeers have become. It isn't just 26 vs 27.5 vs 29, add to the mix fat tire, dual or single suspension, multi gear crank vs single speed, hydraulic brakes (because mechanical brakes that can easily throw you over the handlebars in a panic stop are not good enough), downhill bike vs cross country vs technical trail and of course "all mountain". No wonder the number of independent bicycle shops in the US has declined by over 1/3 since 2005. Some day we might be able to make sense of all this, but right now it feels like marketing chaos.