When my son was about 15, he asked if he could ride with me in an upcoming charity ride. At the time, he only had a mountain bike, so I told him he should have a road bike, since the ride was 150 miles over two days. He was nearly as tall as me, so I pointed to my 1989 Club Fuji and said "How about this one?" He tried to stay cool about it, but the grin on his face gave away how thrilled he was. Early on, he crashed while reaching for the downtube levers, so he asked me to install a pair of STI levers. He did the charity ride, rode it through high school and took the bike to college (always stored indoors). He said he would always get complements on the bike from his friends when they would go riding together. He still rides it now, 15 years later. When he broke his collar bone a couple years ago, I gave him a trainer so he could ride it indoors while he was healing. I am trying to thin the herd, so I told him I would give him another bike that he could keep on the trainer full time. He thought that was a great idea. He lives in another state, so we haven't yet been able to coordinate the transfer.