Originally Posted by Pfutz
Sure its stupid and excessive, sure it needs to change now, but it isn't like you can be pissed at the industry for marketing their products. If people like the poster of this thread don't like that, he or she needs to push for a shift in the buyer base rather than blame the industry.
that is actually PRECISELY why I started this thread.
Originally Posted by treechunk
I post this here because people like ourselves are going to be driving the direction that the bicycle industry goes in, from the inside or the outside, in the years to come, and I think the direction things should go should really be thought of more in terms of how durable/ low maintainence can this part be made rather than how light can we make it and still have it last one season.
WE, the youth, CAN AND DO make noise that the industry hears (hello, fixed gears?!?!?!) and if WE make a shift and ask for what we want, it DOES make a difference. I know that almost everyone here is all about the simplicity of singlespeed and fixed, and that's great, but a when you get a few years older and want something more versatile, you're going to be looking in to things that are more utilitarian. THAT is why it's posted here.