Bringing bikes to the desert
Originally posted on December 6, 2007 at 9:52 am
Despite the fact that the most popular bicycling video on YouTube features a young Saudi burning a mean doughnut on his BMX, the Middle East has never been one of the world’s cycling hotbeds. That could change, as Giant Bicycles yesterday announced a big initiative launching in Dubai.
The bicycle market is often boosted by factors like concerns about the environment and rising oil prices — issues which are not highly accentuated in the Middle East as they are elsewhere.
Funny how all those oil wells drown out the sound of the rest of the world.