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Originally Posted by kawah1c
I don't like modern looking bikes. They all look the same.
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I hear people say stuff about vehicles all the time and I don't understand it. Of course they all look the same. All vehicles from each era look very similar. It's been going on for years. From the time the first Model A rolled off the line, car makers have been copying each other. In the 40's it was curves. In the 50's it was fins and chrome. In the 60's it it was the boxy muscle car. In the 70's, it was the econobox. It continues on. It's the same with bikes.
While car enthusiasts may be able to tell the difference between bikes and cars of years past, most people wouldn't be able to if they didn't have the badges on them. Even with bikes, it's hard to tell a Norton from a Royal Enfield unless you really know bikes.
The thing is, we have more car and bike models than we ever had before. With cars, the reason they look the way they do now is about aerodynamics. Right now, the current designs are the latest technology for cutting throught the air. While future cars will become sleeker, science has pretty much found the right balance between passenger space and low wind resistance. As a result, there are only so many variations you can create that follow those rules.
Bikes are the same. You can only change so much before you throw off the blance, make them uncomfortable to ride, or reduce performance.
This is a similar theme I hear with movies. People always say the stuff today pales in comparison to older movies. While in some cases that's true, Hollywood has made crap for decades. We just only remember the good stuff decades later. The crap just goes away into oblivion. Years from now, we'll be saying they don't make movies like they did in 2007.
The old bikes only look different because there aren't as many still out there. If every bike ever made were still on the road, we wouldn't see that contrast like when an old bike pops up after not seeing one in a long time - or even ever.