There is certainly a growing "buzz" about touring among many of the twenty- something cyclists that I encounter here in NYC. I don't hear "We're takin g a road trip this summer" at all...But I've heard a lot of "I think I want a touring bike". It's GREAT!
Matthew Bowne wantinga touring bike in Brooklyn, New York
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> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:56:25 -0600
> From: john@os2.dhs.org
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Bike touring lives on!
>
> One of my son's friends recently returned from a year of touring South
> America by bicycle (classic steel, no less!). Nice travel log -- makes
> me wish I was either young again, or retired:
>
> http://travelog.cakt.us/
>
> --
> John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
> Appleton WI USA