Originally Posted by
rothenfield1
I don’t mind the looks of this bike at all. After all this time, these comments still seem a little condescending to me. This is curious because as we in the west think it’s quaint, the east has been eating our ham and cheese lunch for decades. After all, the Eastern part of the world has been riding bikes a century or so longer then we in the West have. We love our C&V Euro-centric bikes, but who can afford them, they are relics from a craftsman's age that has apparently past us.
My vote is to make nice to our new bike overlords.
http://bikeportland.org/2006/09/22/f...rdam-bike-2155
Wow. I had to go back and re-read my original post to see if I said anything insulting or condescending about the Chinese or their bikes. Nope. Some people sure are eager to fly off the handle. Boy...did you get me wrong. I like Chinese bikes. Rode one for years. Nice bike. And I love China and her people. I married a Chinese woman, have two elderly Chinese living with me, her parents, and my experience of China is that the people there, in general, are much more open and friendly than in America. By a LONG shot. I could have been much more explanatory and "politically correct" in my posting, I suppose, but I don't think about stuff like that, knowing, as I do in my heart, that I've got nothing against the Chinese. I just think their English is kinda funny sometimes. And, you might want to go back and check your history as to where the bicycle was first invented and used.