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Modern bikes are so much better in many ways. The one thing that I don't like about certain modern bikes, is the praying mantis look of some of them.
Silents -- born '27-'45, now 73 to 91 years old, no knowledge of size but small.Boomers -- born '46-'64, now 54 to 72 years old, about 70 Million of them.Gen X -- born '65-'83, now 35 to 53 years old, about 60 million of them.Gen Y initially, now apparently known as Millennials -- born '84-'02, now 16 to 34 years old. My reading showed this was a small generation (<20 million). Pew is showing them at >70 million and growing. That can't happen, unless they're counting people who were not born here.
Here, accomodation costs for millennials is out of hand. I bought my first house, a two bedroom back-to-back, in the late 70s, for �3,500. I was earning �5,000 pa. The identical house next door went recently for �133,500. This in a northern city, not in the wealthy south east, where house prices have gone through the roof. My 29 year old daughter got a good degree from a good university, and has a good job, but the maximum mortgage she can get is �110,000. She's still living with us.I heard a young man tell a radio interviewer that his rent takes between 40% and 45% of his salary. He's living in a flat, sharing with two others. The blame lies on the shoulders of many of my generation. We've paid off our own mortgages and have inherited the mortgage-free properties of our parents. We've invested that windfall in property, which we let to the young, who we can outbid. A good friend of mine considers himself left-wing, but has seven properties in Leeds which he's letting.I can see the problem. I wish I could see the solution.
the modern young person is facing a vastly different world than we did... hell, in the 90s when I went to university, my tuition was about $3800 a year. So, it makes sense that luxury items (like motorcycles) would be in a transition period.
When I went to the university in the 70's I paid $1,500/year for tuition and room & board.
The solution for your daughter is to move somewhere with a healthier economic environment.
And where might that be? And, of course, every other millennial living in the UK and caught by the high price of property, either to buy or rent, would need to move with her to this Shangri La.
Outside of Europe, based on my own life experience. A good education makes that feasible, or I wouldn't suggest it. My wife and I own four houses (three outside of Europe) in preparation for future retirement income and I started with nothing, and inherited nothing. You have to do what most others in the UK don't do, and leave. Or compete for limited land resources at relatively low income for the rest of your life. There are just too many people for the land area.
Apart from anything else, there's the beer to consider. And no-one outside of the UK and Ireland knows how to make a cup of tea.
I don't know, every generation has new things to spend money on. I graduated from HS in 73. Besides a car the other high expense was stereo equipment and records. Both were expensive when compared to what you get for the buck now in electronics and music. My first stereo cost me around $250 and was at best a mid-level system which in todays dollars would be over $1,500. New release albums were usually in the $4.99 range which is around $30 today! I didn't get my first motorcycle until I was 23 (1979) and both my wife and I were working professional jobs. That was a used lightly used 77 Suzuki GS400 which I paid $800 for which today would be about $2,800. GliderJohn
