Erm, the fact you need a ladder to get on it?
My guess is that as most people were still riding horses they would want a bike that would keep them at the same sort of height.
Precisely.You might as well argue that Karl Benz's first car was crap as it was very slow and handled poorly. It would be somewhat missing the point, just as this thread does.
A few years later Raleigh swapped it round and it sold in the millions!
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Seriously, what a f'in totally ridiculous idea.
Thanks for reading, I just needed to get talk to someone about this.