Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Apparently a lot of people have made an informed decision to buy the bicycles offered by Walmart and similar bicycle retailers. How does that jibe with the self proclaimed BF experts (many of who seem to be associated with LBS operations and bicycle clubs affiliated with LBS) who constantly rail about those retailers and the bicycle products offered (BSO!) as being unsuitable for anyone's use?
The BSO label is really the "No True Scotsman" fallacy being applied to inanimate objects. There seems to be a belief that what's keeping greater numbers of people from biking is they haven't experienced riding a good bike, but there are millions of WM bikes being ridden every day, which has to be explained away. So it's either "someone who just rides a short distance to work isn't a real bicyclist" or "those people aren't riding real bikes and will get sick of it". Anything that can be done to write 80% of the market out of the discussion will be done, apparently.