Originally Posted by
Jaywalk3r
I find it very telling that in countries where most people cycle, e.g., Netherlands, the bikes that are commonly ridden are not the same kinds of bikes that are most commonly ridden in the US, where relatively few people cycle.
I find it somewhat interesting that the kinds of bikes that are ridden in the US are not at all consistent from one place to another, and yet people in the US seem to believe that they are.
For example, in the city I am in presently, the bikes that are commonly ridden are cruisers and single speed bikes. In the city I was in previously, the bikes that were commonly ridden were mountain bikes. And if I recall correctly, the city I was in before that tended to be thick with road bikes of various sorts.