My husband and I bought some very expensive bicycles about 10 years ago and then for a number of reasons did not ride them but a few times. They hung on the wall of our garage gathering dust until a few months ago when we moved into town and had them cleaned up. At our first attempt to ride them I couldn’t work the gears and brakes right and crashed into the curb, bruising a knee and spraining a wrist.
We took the bikes to a bike shop on Highway 99 today to see if we could trade them in on some plain old cruisers and were told they had no bikes for sale, new or used. We were told that all bikes are now made in China and are no longer being imported.
It’s the same old story. Bicycle companies can get bikes made in China for a pittance of what they can sell them for in the U.S. so they don’t make them here anymore. Thus, new bikes are not available and used ones, if they have any, are at a premium. What a fiasco.
