I think you make an important point. I am finding most people now do not have any interest in learning anything mechanical. When I was younger I did not have the spare money to have someone else service my car or motorbike, I had to learn and do it myself (lol, I still don’t have the spare money!).

Without a rudimentary knowledge of anything mechanical they do not know if they are being taken for a ride, so they trust bigger brand names, I mean, bigger companies are more honest, right (watch the netflix mini series called “Painkiller” about the oxycontin scandal!)?

I know a young lad who has a new car on finance because he can will do nothing on it himself. When he moans about the price of what it will cost when he has a problem and I offer to fix it, he will always make an excuse and take it to the dealer (lol,no reflection on my abilities I hasten to add!).

I think it has always been so, but not to the degree it is now. Most of life is now electrical/electronic, mechanical things are a rarity in modern life.

The bicycle embodies everything mechanical that has passed, the E-bike is more familier to the newer generation, they trust it, because it has that “E” in the name,