I was referring to the road bike market not all bikes. That excludes hybrids/touring/cross/MTB bikes. That was what the original comment David made referenced.
~mike On Sunday, October 19, 2014 12:55:34 PM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 10/19/2014 03:08 PM, Mike Schiller wrote: > > Also, many road bikes in the 70's and 80's had room for 32-35mm tires. > Raleigh and Trek come to mind. > > There does appear to be a boom in that market today, but it's still a tiny > fly on a donkey's hind end in total bike sales. > > > > Is that really true? What percentage of the total bike market is made up > of narrow-tired road racers? Certainly MTBs, hybrids & comfort bikes would > have to fall into the wide-tire camp. Just going by shelf-space alloted to > the various types of bikes in the LBSs I visit I'd have to say that it > appears to be closer to 50% than "a tiny fly on a donkey's hind end." > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
