Originally Posted by
mconlonx
Trek dropped most of their USA available IGH bikes.
You missed two important points. First,
international. I know we Americans like to think that the USA is the whole world, but it really isn't. Second,
increasing popularity does not imply
more popular, so comparing sales of IGH bikes to derailer bikes isn't meaningful.
Originally Posted by
mconlonx
You had someone from a co-op tell you that IGH bikes are not popular and I work in in a regular shop... where IGH bikes are not popular.
And neither of those people has any valid reason to believe that they are seeing a representative sample of cyclists, or even US cyclists.