They're really big in Australia, despite their expense and IMO objective inferiority to many other bikes. It's a combination of image and I think a certain cult

They're really big in Australia, despite their expense and IMO objective inferiority to many other bikes. It's a combination of image and I think a certain cultural nostalgia, mostly among men in their 50s and above. I do kind of understand it as a reaction to the physical and cultural blandness and mediocrity of the very suburban Australia most of these guys inhabit.