Originally Posted by
armstrong101
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.
Maybe.
My niece is perfectly happy to ride her grandmother's bike when she visits. She won't touch a drop bar road bike (boys bike
). And I may build her a nice Mixte sometime.
I'm working on getting my nephew interested in road bikes. And, while I'm diverging from my "roots", his father still owns an ancient Raleigh road bike, as well as now dad's (the nephew's grandfather's) bike.
So, yes...
The MTB craze might diverge from the previous generation (or couple of generations) of road warriors. But, there is a lot to be said of like father, like son.