Originally Posted by
Batman_3000
So we now have a profile of the steel bike enthusiast : if a guy has good quality old stereo, plays guitar and grouches about what's the point of educating 90% of the young beyond there mental capacity, therefore ensuring they don't even know the basics, the odds are he is a bike collector.
You got it
London buses are red ergo: everything red is a London bus. I see now
I sometimes wish I hadn't started this thread
. It was only intended as an amusing anecdote, not as a means to bash young folks for lack of knowledge. There will be just as many kids who want to learn how things work, its just that their interests will fall upon different things. There will also be lot's of "old stuff" for them to play with, but it won't be the old stuff we had, because that is all worth $$$ on Ebay thanks to the rabid nostalgia economy. For example, the last, rather shabby "bike boom era" Motobecane that I saw in a goodwill store in Mountain View was priced at $250
What lucky kid wouldn't be happy to give up his playstation for that treasure?
It's a funny old world, but I like it.