Why are we talking about "are rim brakes dead?" and (in another recent thread) "why do bar ends suck compared to brifters?"

This is the C&V forum, people. Screw obsolescence. We celebrate steel and all that comes with it, and this doesn't seem the place to ask when the reasons for this forum's existence will officially be "dead." Because around here I'm pretty sure the answer is "never." Isn't there a New Tech forum or something?

I'm gonna go find a pic of a rod-brake Raleigh now, just on general principle.



EDIT: *Relegated