Originally Posted by
Stucky
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Adults: Average Joes: (Buys bike on impulse; rides around the block once, and never touches bike again): Fine.
Exercise Rider: Probably needs something a little better.
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Personally, all of the adults whom I personally know who bought Walmart bikes, fall into the Average Joe category: They buy a bike with the idea of getting some exercise and taking pleasant rides; ride around the block or to the park once, and discover that riding a bike when you're 45 and 70 lbs overweight is a lot harder than you remembered it being when you 12 and weighed 98 lbs. So they park the bike in the garage, where it sits untouched for 5 or 10 years, and then ends up being sold at their yard sale.
But don't you wonder if those results would have been different if they had bought a GOOD bike? My overweight dad bought a huffy 20 years ago, planning to ride and get back in shape. It got parked, now it's sitting in my basement. And dad is sitting on his couch. Last year overweight me bought a Fuji Absolute, fell in love with riding, and put 1800 miles on it.
Like the poet said, “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”