I didn't say "it's the preserve of" I said "is associated with." Maybe where you live is different but where I live if you talk about cycling most people are go

I didn't say "it's the preserve of" I said "is associated with." Maybe where you live is different but where I live if you talk about cycling most people are going to picture someone in lycra on a road bike riding recreationally, not a concrete worker riding to the job in jeans. This perception skews the conversation about bikes, and the understanding of what needs people have for them and how they use them. And again different areas are different but where I live there's not really a very cheap secondhand bike market. The lowest prices you ever see, if you look for them, are willing to wait and travel, are right around the price of a shitty bike you can get from any big box store 24/7 in dozens of locations around the city. Those shitty bikes unfortunately seem to fulfill a real need, and it's not clear to me that it would be met if you simply removed them. This could be addressed in a whole bunch of ways, most simply with just a straightforward commuter bike subsidy. But that doesn't seem to be on the table do I don't think deleting these bikes should be either.