I remember when I was a kid, and there was a point when all of a sudden, all attachments were uncool. It may have coincided with the emergence of BMX. We had to immediately remove all fenders, chain guards, kick stand, and so forth. My kick stand survived because nobody could figure out how to remove one from a Schwinn.

Later on, we kept our "cool" bikes, but each of us got some old utility bike that we actually rode.