[Gaffer]

Good points. However, one nit-picky thing.....

I prefer to call them ‘bicycle riders’ instead of bikes, ten-speeds, 2 wheelers. I think the ‘bicycle’ term put them in the same class with children riders, as well as pissing off more than a few of them.

To me, there is nothing more ridiculous than a guy in homospandex pants, Aliens Helmet, on a two or three thousand dollar bicycle out riding in traffic at rush hour.

[Graybeard58]

A couple of years back, I took my grandson's bicycle to a bicycle shop to buy a new tire and have them change it. $16 which I did not consider to be unreasonable but while waiting I looked at their new bikes.

The first one I came to had a price tag on it for what I thought was $29.00 and I thought, "Wow, that's cheap", closer examination revealed a lack of a decimel point - it was $2900 and that was by no means the most expensive one they had.