Originally posted by JonR
But soon there will be no alternative available!
That will depend how many people want gears and how many people don't. Yes, it is driven by greed, but if there are a lot of people who want bikes without gears, that's what will happen. And I must say that they haven't been causing me too many problems of late. Heck, it's been around 7,000km now since I even had a flat tyre!