Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
It might seem to you that "so many folks prefer steel" but, in reality, steel bikes are a small niche in the cycling world.
That may be true. Where I live in LA you see lots of new steel bikes out and about. We have plenty of smaller shops that sell them, but I may live in a bubble.
I wonder if they were more available how it would fall out. If you walk into a bigger "mainstream" shop it's wall to wall big 3 bikes, mostly aluminum and then a few pricey carbon models, so many folks never even encounter a new steel bike while shopping (except maybe the Target one they buy for their kid that weighs 40 lbs!)