Perhaps sporty mountain-bikes that are seen by Americans as a toy due to having such a car-centrist culture. Normal bikes are 200e.
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Diplomjodler@feddit.de 11 months ago
Making a bike lightweight is not so hard. Making a bike lightweight and durable is. Top end bikes use high end materials and are engineered to very high standards. But if you just want to get from A Too B, a cheap bike week do just fine.
a9249@lemmy.world 11 months ago
stockRot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What?
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
200€ is Euros, about $212.
kaffeeringe@feddit.de 11 months ago
Plus they don’t get made in large numbers.