>> Which animal is sniffing around that?
>>>> I think I smell troll bait!
>>
>> Naw, I think the market has mostly saturated in the US.
In article <6h665qFjckbpU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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VtSkier <VtSkier@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I think the growing part of mountain biking is what
>I actually do. It is more properly 'back road biking'
>and a mountain bike is the best tool for the job.
I am wondering if the growing market for BMX is in China, or if BMX is
more a statement by the Chinese "We are modern like the West."
>I like to ride and find sharing pavement with autos,
>trucks and the like both scary and not very
>fulfilling aesthetically. So I find public back
>roads, tote roads, cow paths, pent roads and
>so forth and enjoy it a lot.
>
>This suits old geezers like myself.
I think non-pavement riding in the US is decades old. The problem with
US advertising is that all those photos have those riders going down
hill. Certainly over the past decade or 2 summer ski resort use of
downhill riding is growing some what (They all want to consider liability
careful). I don't see any special aesthetic. To me, I'm just traveling.
I bike into work today. Now that was a paved road. Large ****tions of
the world only have bikes. A car is a choice/option for me. But I also
use the same bike on unpaved roads, enough that a helmet is a pretty good
idea.
The thing about BMX courses, and skate parks, is that they have become
mainstream. There's real official ones, and the make****ft ones put
together in family land or improvised. They are even in old world Europe
like Shakepeare's home town Stratford-upon-Avon. The price of gas is
certainly driving more people to examine bikes, and then some fraction
will examine bike recreation.
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