I'm not getting where this is coming from. The question posed was "How many here would ride a.... Walmart Mongoose, Next, Roadmaster, Schwinn?" And I detected very little sense of snobbery in the responses. One could have also posed the same question like, "How many here would eat at.... McDonalds, Burger King, Jack In the Box, Wendy's?" and received similar answers. The answer most people gave was that if it's the only thing available to them then they would ride it. Most of us have ridden those bikes. Most of us now have a choice and opportunity to get a better bike and most of us have chosen that route.