Originally Posted by
genec
I suspect most of the folks in the "bicycling population" that are happy with their Walmart $100 bikes are not the sort of folks that give a hoot about bike lanes, or VC, nor do they commute 30 miles a day on a bike.
For the crowd that rides less than 500 miles a year, anything with handlebars and two semi-inflated tires is probably good enough.
True Walmart bikes might not be "good enough" for the BF bicycling cognoscenti; also probably true is that most of the entire bicyclist population couldn't give a hoot about Vehicular Cycling (if they even heard of it). If you doubt that, take a look around when not riding with the bike club peloton and note how and where people ride their bicycles.
Even less likely is that there is anything but an infinitesimally small percentage of the entire bicyclist population that commutes 30 miles a day on a bike or needs a bike set up for such enthusiastic riding, and they all seem to post on the BF Commuting Forum.
