Originally Posted by
old's'cool
My guess is that the market segment that wants an automatic transmission is neither a big nor an important one.
I think the lapse in logic in this instance is: The kind of people who are too lazy to shift their own gears on a bicycle are also probably too lazy to pedal a bike in the first place.
'Automatic' bikes have always had one of three problems: 1. They didn't work anywhere near as well as claimed. 2. If they did work, the cost over a regular bike was too much to interest many customers. 3. Combine points 1 and 2.
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