You just brought up the correct point. "Next generation" "always" discards the previous generation's likes. People tell me in the 1960s, everyone was imaging "Western" stuff was going to be the collectible stuff of the future, and everyone was hoarding anything relating to cowboy "Western" stuff. Evidently, kids didn't take to their parent's appreciation of this (what is now) garbage.

What we have though, is this uncanny situation where the "next generation" actually likes the SAME STUFF as the previous generation. People growing up liking 1980s road bikes are being joined by the "next generation" of today, who didn't grow up with them. What other hobbies would kill for that? Again, not ALL young kids today are interested in these bikes, but enough them certainly seem to, at least IMO, and certainly far more as a percentage than in other dying hobbies.