Originally Posted by
Atlas Shrugged
Completly ignore previous comments and insert this foolish stat. Boomers are 1946 - 1964 plus you have the Gen X to contend with. People in their 60s and 70s have never been healthier, more active and as well resourced. In the real world as previously mentioned cycling events are extremely popular, cycling vacation operators have never had more participants, and bicycle touring in Europe is more popular than ever. Demographics is not what has killed the ACA rather the services they offer.
Show us the statistics you assembled to come to this conclusion.
Anytime an entity that someone doesn't like fails, the detractors will claim - without evidence - that it failed
because of the thing they didn't like. Always ignoring all the other organizations that did well while having the same politics or whatever.
So people making claims should show their math.
As far as the ACA goes, I've been intimate with many parts of cycling since the '80s, and I have never heard of them. To me, that says that touring is niche, and touring with the ACA is niche in the niche. To certain tourists the ACA looms large in their experience, but they never had numbers comparable to Beanie Baby collectors. And Beanie Babies collectors also disappeared in short order. Sometimes there doesn't need to be a single reason something dies.