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by maskros 2990 days ago
Europe is full of city bikes with coaster brakes. Everybody here has a bike, not just the hard-core bikers.
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I've rarely seen coaster brakes, especially among the non hard-core bikers here in Paris.
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.
You don't have hipsters in your town?
they ride fat -tire or fixie bikes :)