Originally Posted by
cyccommute
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.
Interesting thought. I wonder how those stats might change if we only considered those bikes that are coming at us as "wrong way riders"? I have yet to see a nice bike coming at me the wrong way.