Originally Posted by
roccobike
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Still I see some serious bucks lining up for roll-off every Sunday with one noticeable missing ingredient, youth. I don't see anyone in their 20s lining up to ride. If I was a bike company executive, I'd have to ask how they plan to maintain people buying new bikes.
I do not doubt that this is true in a lot of places, but the groups I ride with have a large number of riders in their 20's and 30's. Some of the slower rides have had teens riding with their parents.
Maybe it is that we have three universities here in the Fargo area. Possibly it is because off road trail riding here is not as attractive to younger riders as it is in some places. Although, if I go to one of the parks with off road trails there are a higher percentage of younger folks riding than in the road group rides. And some of them have spent a lot of money on their trail bikes.
Perhaps it is because the old folks here in the upper Midwest are a bit more easy going and easier to get along with. Perhaps it is just that we are a statistical anomaly. I don't really know.
And, yes. The higher end road bicycles tend to have older riders. Partially because we need every advantage, and if those carbon wheels give me a mile per hour on the top end I can still ride with the group.