Nope! When I was a kid everything was about how fast you could go! Little has changed in the past 50 years. I recall riding thru an woodsy area that could be best described as "dirt-bike" friendly. Problem was, this was before dirt bikes were invented! Didn't matter, the object was to see how fast we could go thru this winding, hilling, treed area on our street bikes. Speed was KING! The neighborhood kids I see on my recumbent aren't the least bit interested in my recumbent. They want a bike that can do tricks, hop curbs, etc, which neither I nor my bike are capable of doing.