I bought my first adult bike in 1972, and my first really great bike a year later. I don't consider myself to be "old school", I tend to embrace much new technology and I am always looking around for new stuff. My current road bikes are a few years old, but I do not think of them as being out of date except that they are 10 speed rather than the current 11 speed standard. My next road bike will have disc brakes and whatever number of speeds that are available when I buy it. I ride on road tubeless tires and think they are great. I have a good friend who talks endlessly about how he is old school. I think he is a bore and just too lazy to keep up to date.