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Old 10-30-25 | 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by VtwinVince
That looks like fun, thanks for the SITREP. My worry is the demographic, very few young people are interested in this hobby. All the bike nerds I know personally are old, like me.
It sure seems like that and may be but if you look around a bit there are younger folks leaning in.

One thing I think I see is when there's a gathering, the youngster hang back a bit as we blab away, it may be a little intimidating when they think/know they have a simple question they're hesitant to ask.

I try to look out for them and engage, it almost always goes well if you give them a good in and a nudge it seems.

It really is incumbent on us to work to keep this alive and going, we're already at a tipping point, the number of folks who want our old stuff is very much weak as we are finding out currently.

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