Originally Posted by Dchiefransom
If a company wants to make a utility bike in America, it will have to focus on the machine being efficient, and that's where a heavy bike just won't cut it. Being efficient is ingrained into our culture, and it will be harder to convince most Americans to slow down to the speed of European life.
It's pretty hilarious to consider that a 200-lb person, suffering the typical effects of surrendering most locomotive function to a steel cage upwards of 30 times too heavy to lift, might blame the pain of climbing a hill on a bicycle on the "inefficiency" of a frame weighing 2 lbs - or even 15 lbs - more than another.