Anyone noticed?

[butafly]

I think Rroad is dying a quick death. If you speak to cycle shops you'll see they sell something like 8 mountain bikes for each road bike. People are scared of the roads.

 

I agree and with good reason.

 

However I am not sure its a fair comparison' date=' mountain bikes have always been a sort of entry level bike, dont most cyclists start there and graduate onto either road or a higher end mountain bike?? I havent bought a bike for a while, but it used to be the norm.

 

Never the less, the roads are becoming more of an issue than ever, although I guess you can fall just as hard on the gravel as the tar, it dos eliminate the traffic issue.

 

 

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and track is dead - now figure that out.

[Tumbleweed]

I think Rroad is dying a quick death. If you speak to cycle shops you'll see they sell something like 8 mountain bikes for each road bike. People are scared of the roads.

the lbs i work at currently has about 5 road bikes on stock. the only top-end sales we make here are through insurance claims. and these are not theft replacements. they are usually accident replacements.

 

Although cyclists are only being mowed down at a rate of one a week' date=' they get far more publicity than a motorist getting killed. Not only from newspapers (I think it is only Beeld that still reports on cycling deaths, but I may be wrong), but also from chit-chat at clubs and forums such as this

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it is sad, but even the wire advisories of cyclist deaths are becoming fewer and fewer. after a while it no longer becomes newsworthy, i guess.

[_Daemon_]

 

I think Rroad is dying a quick death. If you speak to cycle shops you'll see they sell something like 8 mountain bikes for each road bike. People are scared of the roads.

 

I agree and with good reason.

 

However I am not sure its a fair comparison' date=' mountain bikes have always been a sort of entry level bike, dont most cyclists start there and graduate onto either road or a higher end mountain bike?? I havent bought a bike for a while, but it used to be the norm.

 

Never the less, the roads are becoming more of an issue than ever, although I guess you can fall just as hard on the gravel as the tar, it dos eliminate the traffic issue.

 

 

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People also generally tend to keep their roadbikes longer, say buy a roadbike every 5 years compared to every 2nd year for a mtb, purely based on a the abuse a mtb takes. Hence the sale stats.

 

[scotty]

Hi Mux

 

Ur gonna cop some flak for the pic.

 

It's been re-heated a couple of times now with some ill-tempered reaction.  Best to put on the one with the guy sleeping with his bike in the tent and the girlfriend outside.

 

U riding on Saturday?

 

 

 

How about SBR?

 

Its Benoni on Monday

[water bottle]

Hi Mux

 

Ur gonna cop some flak for the pic.

 

It's been re-heated a couple of times now with some ill-tempered reaction.  Best to put on the one with the guy sleeping with his bike in the tent and the girlfriend outside.

 

U riding on Saturday?

 

 

 

How about SBR?

 

Its Benoni on Monday

 

I will find out what time it starts. Got to register at the start, and is untimed - charity race 103 km's.