Originally Posted by BooksandBikes

Read above. LOL! No one is interested. They say nice things, are encouraging but everyone I work with drives vans, SUVs, Jeeps and have a bunch of children. Again, I live in the South. Not Portland, Oregon. The concept of biking to work, commuting with children, bakfiets---is aligned with liberalism, socialism and/or poverty. This is a broad generalization but truly: road bikes for the upper middle class or Walmart Genesis for the warehouse just arrived to America group---from MY OBSERVATIONS.