Originally Posted by carpediem
It's not designed to take to the friggin grocery store ladies, it's designed to work. Nothing, NOTHING supplies the sheer horsepower necessary for building, digging, moving, and PROGRESSING like sweet sweet fossil fuel. Or then again, maybe we should all still be scratching out a miserable existance in the soil with no free time for advances in medicine, technology, and the human condition. Oh yeah, then there's the little problem of building, shipping, and selling bicycles without the help of fossil fuel driven transport, that would be a bit of a problem.
Um, I KNOW someone who bought one of these---a newly retired guy bought it to haul his brand new
gigantic RV around. Not exactly the march of good ol' technology for the betterment of humankind.
Of course you're right, most will be purchased for work needs, but apparently not
all.
Insult to injury: the guy who bought this thing has been a hard core bike tour monster for years. I am truly at a loss.