On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Erik Ryberg &lt;<a href="mailto:ryberg@seanet.com">ryberg@seanet.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am convinced--though admittedly not for any studied reason-- that many people buy department store bikes because they need cheap transportation, not because they want a cool-looking mountain bike with full suspension and they think they get that at Wal-Mart. &nbsp;Which leads me to believe that there is a market for simple bikes of decent quality that are inexpensive.</blockquote>
</div><br>Surely I&#39;m not the only one who&#39;s had a fresh Earn-a-biker ready to pick out his bike who sees the shiny new/almost new <i>NEXT</i> mountain bike on top of the pile, in all its plastic chain guarded and weird fully suspended glory , and who passes up a much better all around bike that&#39;s a little more used, a little less loved, and thinks it&#39;s the best bike in the shop? I&#39;m not just talking about kids, either. Grown men who go for the shiny...<br>
<br>interested thread.<br><br><br><br><br><br>