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"Ed Stasiak" <estas...@att.net> wrote:

>> cloud dreamer
>> > Ed Stasiak
>> >
>> > But still nothing about bicycles.
>>
>> Well, so few Americans use bicycles today, I imagine there was
>> a limited supply to start with.
>
> 11 million new bicycles (20" wheels or larger, 15.7 million total)
> were sold last year, 13.5 million the year before, 10.2 million the
> year before that;


Yep.  Nearly every garage in American has a bike (or many) and most of them 
are in really good shape because people don't use them much at all. 
Additionally, the trend over the last 15 years has been towards 'off 
roading' style bikes/tires (as opposed to those super skinny racing tires), 
so most of those near brand new bikes will have decent tires for riding 
around on post apocalypse roads.