Originally Posted by Kommisar89

Like when I went to the Boulder, CO vintage bike swap - I figured "10-speeds" of one variety or other sold by the millions in the early 70's and would be plentiful. Instead, out of a couple hundred bikes there was one lonely Schwinn Varsity and something French that might have been a low end Peugeot or Gitane or something at one time. Everything else was a balloon tired cruiser or Stingray chopper style bike, most from the 50's and 60's. It's like the 70's never happened. The coolest bikes there were a couple of imaculate Peugeot touring models (maybe UE-18's or something similar) that this old couple had purchased in Paris in the 70's and road to the swap meet on and those were not for sale.