Could be any of a number of reasons: maybe it's simply not as important to as many people as others may think; maybe there's not the same degree of resonance*; maybe many join on the basis of being able to buy or sell something, but aren't really interested in participating in the forum.My_Teenage_Self":6r3pa5av said:The biggest question really is why so few people vote?
*on the subject of the resonance thing... BITD, when I was young(er) I rode decent, bikes, that never let me down, as did all the people I rode with. I was late teens to early 20s, I didn't really obsess about exotica or have moody posters of high-end bikes on my bedroom wall - by that point I was a bit past that - and the people I rode with tended to be a fair bit older than me. So uber-rare or expensive bikes didn't mean anything to me then, nor now. It wasn't all about - well if I'd been older or had more money, I'd have been able to buy the bike of my dreams - believe me, I wasn't dreaming about bikes - so they really don't mean that much to me.
They may be very nice and all, and I have nothing whatsoever against them, or people being interested in them - what I reject, though, is the notion - almost presented as axiom - in terms of why be interested in mundane stuff, when you could be interested in top end stuff - and the answer is, my only real interest in old bikes, is the memories, the nostalgia, the taking me back to my happier, free-er times - not a revisionist look back at those times, with a "look at what you could have won..." mindset.
And perhaps for many that were a little younger, BITD, perhaps it was all a bit more aspirational - but maybe if you'd already moved on a little from that, it wouldn't all be about unaffordable or unrequited love for some exotic bike from BITD, but for some, is perhaps merely about what they enjoyed back then, and still want to enjoy now.
In much the same way as there is for things like classic cars - they weren't all great, high-end cars.
I think there's room for all comers. Problem being is, that I think many seem to see their way as the only true way, and give the impression that whatever their perspective should be, should be prevalent here.