Originally Posted by
gauvins
Useless!?! This is what it is.
Most bikes are very inexpensive. A back of the envelope calculation based on the
NDBA annual report pegs the average price of a new bike at $165.(6.2 Billions in sales, 47% of which are bikes, numbering slightly under 20M units). This meshes very well with Amazon's listings.
Yes, most bikes are very inexpensive. So what?
Cheap mountain bikes are really just cheap bikes that look like mountain bikes. That doesn't tell us much about real mountain bikes.
Usually, really cheap bikes are just generic bikes used rarely for short distances.
Their "type" doesn't really matter.
Touring bikes are odd because there are not really any cheap lookalike "touring" bikes. Cheap hybrids are cheap touring bikes but have a different name.