Posted on 04/18/2020 8:20:45 AM PDT by 4Runner
Kent International Inc., which imports bikes from China and also makes them at a plant in South Carolina, said sales of its low-priced bikes had surged over the past month.
Kent is already out of stock on five of its top 20 models and expects that to rise to 10 by the end of the month, chief executive and chairman Arnold Kamler said. He noted supplies were flowing in from China, which has reopened much of its manufacturing base over the past month.
Kamler said sales at most of the major retailers he supplies were up 30% last month and are up over 50% so far in April, with the surge in demand forcing him to change shipping arrangements.
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Everyone I know calls them bikes. (pedal version)
Ironically their odds of being hurt or killed in a bike accident much higher than contracting covid
BTW, isn't it nice being a newbie? You get to screw up and everyone forgives you.
I've been riding bikes (motorcycles) since I was 12. Start talking to me about bikes and I'm going to think motorcycles. Those things you pedal are bicycles.
Same here. Im old school. The ones who normally call bicycles “bikes” are faggots from West Hollywood.
It’s likely a regional language thing. When I was a kid, kids wanted a “BMX bike” for Christmas or you head about someone’s “bike” getting stolen. No one was remotely confused as to what anyone was talking about.
Goodness knows going by some of the replies, some people on FR cant deal with such a thing, apparently.
Well I guess there's some people on FR, after all. Not a lot. But some.
“The ones who normally call bicycles “bikes” are faggots from West Hollywood.”
Everyone in my area calls bicycles “bikes” and motorcyles “bikes” are able to distinguish between the two. As in their and there...and I live in rural Appalachia. w
Same here. Even growing up in the mountains out East, everybody called bicycles “bikes.”
Ditto...grew up in Appalachian mountains.
Yep, see my post 9
I have five high-end bikes here if anyone is interested in alternative transportation. I have to sell them to buy toilet paper.
I ride my bicycle several thousand miles/year. I say this to make the point that I have bicycles in my garage that are ready to go and I have the physical ability to do 50-100 mile bicycle rides at will.
Having said that using a bicycle for anything other than amusement/exercise is not my thing. Here in NE PA even with a mild winter it still isn’t nice enough outside to ride much.
Buying a low end bicycle is not the way to avoid mass transit as the nature of the thing just simply doesn’t lend itself to the demands of such service. Those who buy such machines generally, but not always, lend themselves to the demands of the same.
Bicycles have been bikes to me. Maybe in your group bikes meant motorcycles.
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