Originally Posted by
mtnbke
The same way car collectors moved to muscle cars, C&V steel bikes are going to rapidly lose their value. Like a Model A, they are ubiquitous and not in any shape or form to be confused with real performance level bikes. Young kids and hipsters want Klein, Cannondale, Kestrel, Morgul-Bismark in the coming years.
To the cyclist that grew up on fast US aluminum and carbon any steel Colnago, Olmo, Ciocc, Masi is just lipstick on a steel pig.
Controversial view.
Almost certainly inaccurate, also.
Certainly no support for this in my local market. I base this evaluation, in part, on having conversed with many hundreds of local cyclists (including a great many young kids and hipsters) while working in a Vancouver, BC, LBS for the past year - and in part on my experience selling C&V steel to a similar demographic via CL, etc.
What leads you to make the assertions you do about the evolving tastes of "[y]oung kids and hipsters", anyways?