Originally Posted by
Koyote
In other words: if the consumers would simply demand it, and the producers would simply produce it, we could have these bikes that you want at the price that you want..
I have no use for such a thing.
The article linked in the first post was about people who want and need them, but can't get them.
That's not to deny that many would probably prefer a car if they had the choice, but that's orders of magnitude further out of reach.
Economic desperation bike transport is very much a thing.
But yes, it's true that the reason good inexpensive bikes aren't on the market when they could be, is that it would take a joint change on both the selling and buying side - neither could switch without the other.