Originally posted by MichaelW
I think American tend to inhabit a bi-modal world. You have extreme sports enthusiasts or couch potatoes. In Europe we probably have a more normal distribution of cycling habits, with more middle ground.
If you look at what US bike shops sell, its is downhill MTB bikes and race-oriented road bikes for the high performance athletes, or "comfort bikes" for the root vegetables.
Americans - speed
Europeans - endurance
