Originally Posted by Atlas Shrugged

I will skip my life story but instead repeat the question the demographers amongst us refuse to answer. The age of partipants in, events, cycling destinations, touring (outside of North America) etc. is heavily weighted to 50 and over. These activities are very popular and as busy or busier than ever. Tour operators are booming worldwide from TDA who provide extreme adventure tours lasting months to Trek focusing on the premium sporting end. I regularly fly for personal reasons to the usual hubs in Europe or other popular destinations, bicycles are on every flight and commonplace in airports unlike just a couple of decades ago. It’s the ACA which was left behind and to blame demographics is overly simplistic. Yes their members aged out and they have not attracted new ones in any age group and that’s on them.

Just look at these forums and the obvious older demographic, a vast majority seem to be Boomers or Gen X. There is still active participation here not the complete membership collapse experienced by the ACA.