Originally Posted by
livedarklions
Aren't the largest share of bikes, by far, located in Asia? How common are IGH bikes there?
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That would make sense as that is where the largest share of people are.
Some skimming of street photos from China and India yielded me almost no RDs on bikes that I could make out if there was one. Also, consider the incredible number of bike share bikes there. I have never seem an RD on one.
Now maybe these are mostly SS? Maybe. But if even a fraction are geared, that is a lot of bikes.
This should not be surprising. Again, consider why bike share bikes are mostly (if not all) IGH. Most bikes in the world are left outside, see next to zero maintenance, and are ridden by people who are as interested in the mechanics of the bike as they are about the buses they ride. They don’t spend time on Bike Forum learning how to diagnose and fix shifting issues.