Originally Posted by
timtak
Or is it that the pop music theory needs to be modified: people love the bikes that they wanted when they first fell in love with bikes?
I fell in love with road bikes in the 1970s. I buy a fair number of used bikes, and I won't even look at a bike with downtube, stem, or bar end shifting
Seriously, if you look at the people touting the latest and greatest on this forum, I think you'll find that as a group, they skew older.