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Old 12-19-07 | 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by roadfix
Unlike members of this forum, most commuters are not bike enthusiasts. They just want to get to work and lock up their $49 mountain bikes at their usual parking spot.
As a bike enthusiast, I take bike efficiency and practicality into consideration when choosing and setting up my bike as a commuter.......whether it be a mountain bike, road bike, or whatever....
I don't know if that's valid. Considering the low number of bicycle commuters in the US (somewhere around 5 million), I'd suspect that most of them bicycle to work because they want to...not because they have to. In other words, enthusiasts. There are a few people that ride their $49 bikes to work but I see far more expensive bikes then cheap ones.
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