Originally Posted by
sloppy12
this BSO think is literally something that only a elitist group of people would say about things that poor people own and use happily every day
Might be worth reading the streetsblog article in the first post, because it's about the coops trying to keep BSO's (and very old better things) going for precisely the people who can't afford anything else.
My own firsthand but limited experience with them has actually been better, so ironically in echoing their frustration that there's a problem in need of solving, I'm listening to rather than dismissing their perspective.
What I'm arguing for is that our consumer supply chain should provide a better "feedstock" for those efforts to keep folks who need wheels, rolling on them, by refocusing from what's flashy to what's important.
You can probably go to goodwill or the salvation army and find a much better bike for less money
A lot of those sources have dried up under the present demand; they're also being replenished less and less as fewer of the new objects sold are going to last.