Originally Posted by
Het Volk
but also, a lot of knowledge will be lost sadly. Sheldon Brown is great, and the internet is a great resource, but there is something that will be lost over the next quarter-century in terms of memories, stories and know-how.
Probably not as much as you think. The last commercially built steam locomotive was built in 1952 in the US. The technology itself is from the 1820s. And yet there are thousands of young folks today who know how to safely maintain and operate this obsolete technology. C&V bikes are simpler by an order of magnitude.