I try not to seem jaded, or to be condescending to the younger generation. ;-) However, when you've spent enough time with anything--including bicycles and bicycling--you realize that there really is "nothing new under the sun." To wit:
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About
twenty years ago, suspension was the great "new" development in
bicycles. But, as you can see, it had been done a century earlier.
It was revived at various times: If you're a bit older than I am,
you may have ridden a Schwinn or Columbia balloon-tired bike with a big spring
on the front fork.
What
will they re-discover next?
Not so long ago, we WERE "the younger generation."
ReplyDeleteSteve--Time flies, doesn't it?
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