If you look at any product review that is a bit outdated is obsolete, is a crap is the latest junk you can possibly buy or have. How did our parents survived without them?
I search now for a bike, tried on ebay but see here why I can't find things on ebay that worth the buck. Got over a Decathlon bike and trying to find out what people think about it I stumbled upon this question ... "how the heck we survived until now?" ... really, we have a problem "has no disk brakes" - no shit is half price of the cheapest merida bike that also has no disk brakes.
Do we need disk brakes? Really!?!? No shit! Think about Tour de France before carbon frames, aluminium frames and disk brakes, how the hell they even manage to ride 2 km? Maybe back then things were more harder to achieve but the satisfaction was maybe at least ten times bigger.
Why the satisfaction was bigger? Think about Mount Everest, really, now is full of old dudes full of money who can afford to pay the guys who carry their luxury (and yes, they are human too, not animals but are used like animals), latest outdoor equipment that cost more than a penthouse in London and other things to help them get on the roof of the world. But when was the first time someone on the top? 1953, that's right, 1953! They were not the first to attempt but was the first confirmed success.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 - Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hillary_and_tenzing.jpg
This was way before goretex and other tex and the other tex. Those were balls!
Let's return to the bikes, my grandfather had a bike with only one brake, no cables, just pure metal levers and the brake was not even V-Brake, was applied straight on the tire, and he made the country tour. Take one of today's so called sportsman to do this.
Motorcycles, disk brake is a standard, you have an older model with rear drum-brake? Then you should sell it! I had one with drum brakes front and rear, according to the vast majority was a piece of junk but according to history was one of the models used on Paris Dakar race. Again, pun one of the current teams to ride a bike like that, no way.
Guitars, I had a guitar from 70's, junk compared to the current ones but those guys could make music with that "crap".
Other examples are:
library - for idiots, you got wiki;
books - what!?!? you got e-readers;
cars - without assisted steering and traction, ABS and other sensors half of the population will die in an accident;
nature - that's right, how many of you can pitch a tent (old school one) and start a fire just with two matches!?!?
having fun without the world of electronics - actually get a life and stop to see how is your neighbor;
play - analog, not digital, I see less children playing outside, on streets, in forest, they have a playstation;
spending quality time with your significant other - most young couples are very busy with their smartphones even when they are together.
The list can go endlessly and everyone knows that if is older than two years is a crap. Sorry dudes, I still live in my world where is fun to achieve something with a steel bike with v-brakes (btw I can do downhill too with a crap bike, not for competition but for fun!), read books on the porcelain pony, go out and jump in the mud, repair my motorcycle because is too old for the guys from service and they have no idea how to service it without a computer, spend days with my lady while the smartphone remains untouched, get in the forest and make my own gasoline free camp fire, make my own bone rings and other "crap stuff".
The question remains ... how the heck did we survive until iPhone?
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