Pat wrote:
: Could overlap with social class issues. Possibly in poorer
: neighborhoods,
as
: in poorer countries, bikes are used as transport because people do
: not
have
: the option of cars. So when they become upwardly mobile, they eschew
: what they see as symbols of poverty. Among social elites, instead,
: the bike is seen as ecological, intellectual and aware. People take
: it for granted
that
: they _can_ afford cars, and therefore the bike is the conscious
: choice of the green and handsome and fit and hip.

Hell, I can't even get my sons to ride bikes. One of them said, "You
do know that cars have been invented, right?"