Originally Posted by
Happy Feet
Well, no one said America was terrible.. only that Europe seems to embrace new technological ideas more actively at the moment. It's not a judgement. Part of it is probably that there is a huge population there of mixed cultures co mingling in a small geographic area so there are just a lot of new ideas being developed and part is a forward looking direction for solutions wherein the US seems to currently be looking back to the past in a nostalgic sense for solutions.
I just think European thinking is better at tweezing out the particular activity being asked of the bike and designing well made specific solutions. Here we seem to want to make one design fit all by bending and hammering it into a slightly different shape.
I understand your opinion, but do you have any experience, data, or proof to support it?
Again, my real world experience and data point to exactly the opposite of what you are saying.
Lastly, the majority of Europe is FAR more homogeneous in terms of cultures and heritage than the majority of the U.S., especially if you consider third and fourth generations, most of which are from families that immigrated.