Originally Posted by
wolfchild
By 2060 bicycles will will be so complex and sophisticated that it will be impossible for a home mechanic to do any type of service or maintenance...Nothing wrong with looking forward into the future, life is definitely better now than it was 300 years ago.
Of course by 2060 bicycles may also no longer need any kind of service or maintenance. Who knows?
Maybe we'll have fully cordless shifting/brakes with self adjustment and 10 year batter lives, tyres that are truly puncture proof with self adjusting pressures.
Maybe we'll still have essentially what we have now with super strong super lightweight components.
All we know is that in 2060, some people will still be saying that bike design peaked in (year they got their last good bike), and that everything made after (arbitrary date most people can't remember) aren't real bikes for some reason.