Originally Posted by Barabaika
Why should I apologise?
I can just add a line.
90% American women doesn't know how to drive a stick shift car.
75% American men doesn't know and have no will to drive a stick shift car.
Neither know they how to handle geared bikes.
So what? They need automatic, low-maintenance bikes.
Sure, the British have to know how to drive stick in order to obtain a driver's license.
In the UK they use all sorts of bikes for commuting, mostly Dutch style bikes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A689033
I heard you have to pay £8 to enter London in a car.
Apples. Oranges. Plus it's very insulting.
My Grandmothers knew how to drive stick. My mother knows how to drive stick...and a tractor. My mother-in-law knew how to drive stick...and tottled around in a 1960 Austin-Healy Bug-eyed Sprite. My wife knows how to drive a stick...she even learned how to drive one using a 4-on-the-tree transmission and drove one until her current car. One of my daughters knows how to drive stick and currently drives a Ford Ranger 4wd pickup. My other daughter doesn't know how to drive stick because she hasn't started driving yet.
And, just to prove the point, I know how to drive stick. If a idiot like me can learn anybody can. Same with shifting a bike.
Now. Apologize. I'm done with this.