[JoeAltmaier]

Depends on how you ride. An adult in the US, you're on a road bike bent over the bars and going 15-20mph. Hands on the brakes at all times. I do a ride every summer with 20,000 like-minded people and if you see even one bike with coaster brakes all week its unusual.

[maskros]

Europe is full of city bikes with coaster brakes. Everybody here has a bike, not just the hard-core bikers.

[baud147258]

I've rarely seen coaster brakes, especially among the non hard-core bikers here in Paris.

[JoeAltmaier]

I don't know if all 20,000 people are hard-core. Its just that road bikes are very, very common. Kids bikes might have coaster breaks, sure. But hardly anybody over 15 has one.

[komali2]

You don't have hipsters in your town?

[JoeAltmaier]

they ride fat -tire or fixie bikes :)