Originally Posted by PeregrineA1

I fear not for our future. At least based on my limited survey....

We have recent college grads, of the non-hipster variety, and many of their friends through the house on a regular basis and they, for the most part, take more than a passing interest in our old bikes. Each of our kids got a C&V bike as a Xmas present when they went college. I figured we would be lucky if either back made it out the other side. Both did and the are treasured possessions.

We gifted a former employee of mine, started out as illegal alien laborer now on the path to citizenship and field supervisor, a recent model mountain bike a few years ago. He has taken that bike as a launch pad-getting his buddies involved. They have a dozens strong group of riders now. He has also fallen hard for C&V, as have several of his compadres. And not for junk, they are beating me to the good stuff on CL....

Our bike co-op is in the barrio and at the swaps, the Hispanic and Asian folks really go after the good C&V parts and frames. Many good conversations.

So, from my perspective the future is bright, though the demographic may be shifting.