>>2043203>MTBs are the bikes built for the shitty roadWrong.
The bicycle. More precisely the ordinary and the safety bicycle, were originally conceived before road conditions were anywhere remotely comparable with what we have today. They were built for the roads of the time, which today we consider shitty roads. And the later safety bicycles were built with utility in mind.
In contrast, some boomers like GT and similar individuals reacted to a saturation of the market with bicycles by advertising the a new style of bicycle as adventurous, cool and superfluous - as opposed to the abundant common safety bicycle saturating the market.
Yes I do mean the superfluous part. Aparently the people involved pushed the idea that if you depend on your bike you must be to poor to afford other means of transportation and a bicycle could only be cool if you used it for sports and leisure.
This new style of bicycle, the MTB was, as the name implies, not built for any road, neither a good nor shitty road, but mountainous terrain. This again underlines the fact that the idea was not to provide a utilitarian means of transportation but said superflous piece of sports equipment.
Now guess what? The shills saturated the market. They were successful in branding 'the old' style of bicycle as boring, embarassing even and every kid that wanted a bicycle wanted and got an MTB specifically. Regardless of their intended use case being MTB or not. The MTB crowded generic bicycles out, even in urban settings, and people, lacking options, found that the MTB was, with some compromises, perfectly fit as a means of transportation. Just like people are finding out today that the road bike, with some limitations, is perfectly fit for the job.
But none of this changes the truth that the traditional bicycle is the optimal choice for the job.
Long story short:
Fags have always been distracted by marketeers too easily and thus steered away from tradition.
