Originally Posted by
cyccommute
I don't know where you live but you can stop playing the "people don't ride bikes in the US so they don't know anything about bicycles" card. The products "forced on us by the Bicycle industry" are what sells.
BS. People buy what's available. If the US consumers had the same bikes readily available for purchase that people have in places where the typical person rides often, you'd see more people riding in the US.
Originally Posted by
cyccommute
IGH doesn't.
Funny how it's getting increasingly popular as it's becoming increasingly
available.
Originally Posted by
cyccommute
I work in a bicycle co-op on Saturdays all year around and the number of IGH bikes that aren't 3 speeds we see per year can be counted on one hand.
You have no reason to believe you're seeing a representative sample of bicyclists. You're also ignoring three speeds, despite the fact that they're IGHs. Remember, the plural of
anecdote is not
data.
Originally Posted by
cyccommute
We might just know something about bicycles and bicycle components.
The good old appeal to authority logical fallacy. Gotta love it!