>>1900080Yeah, a lot of people, women especially, will have preferences that skew extreme towards 'comfort' and 'ease' when buying a bicycle.
You can explain everything is a tradeoff, and 'comfort' will come with extra weight, cost, be slower, and often, not actually be comfortable for longer rides, but they want what they want and people should ride the bikes they like, for whatever reason, that's actually pretty important.
I help people buy bikes a lot and often they totally ignore all of my advice and opinions which is totally cool. What they really want is just someone to sound their own ideas off and encourage them to ride and maybe ride with them and help them if they have problems. Most people don't want you to explain -anything- to them and if anything needs explaining you have already lost them.
It's pointless being too dogmatic.
>>"hey anon what do you think of this used 2k mountainbike I just bought?"the correct answer is 'thats cool lets go ride this trail together' or 'go cruise around this park and drink some beers' or something like that. Just encourage them.
The only real way to proselytize your bike preferences is to have bikes that you believe in and invite people to borrow them.
