On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:52:37 -0500, David L. Johnson wrote:

I was amazed by the large percentage of extremely old bikes there,
especially in Paris. I'd say that a good third of them were at a minimum
30 years old.

You'll find the same in much of Europe. Gothenburg Sweden, in particular,
has a large percentage of folks on old bikes.

Even old folks on new bikes for that matter. I saw a woman who had to be
over seventy climbing a snowy hill this winter on her fender equipped MTB
with snow studs. Now that's cool!