Originally Posted by davester

I find it a little odd that Japan is winning this poll. Although they were a major manufacturing force during the bike boom, the mass of japanese bikes that were created had little or nothing to do with tradition or love of bicycling racing/touring by the Japanese as it was with the European nations. It had everything to do with manufacturing skill and the business opportunity that the US bike boom created. Am I alone in thinking that admiration for C&V bicycles should be about about tradition, aesthetics, and the involvement of artisans who loved and/or raced bicycles?