Not that I see so terribly many bicycles around here, of any stripe! There's a couple in the Woodstock area, really serious types - the fellow has completed PBP a couple times! - they have a couple beautiful bikes, 8 speed hubs in the back, fenders, nice leather saddles, 559 x 32 tires or maybe fatter, dynamo hubs in the front. I managed to exchange a few words with the husband one time. He thought me a bit strange for being such a bike geek. He thought the Rohloff beyond the pale, unjustifiable. It gets me up the hills! But I didn't say that to him. Anyway that's the closest thing around here. I talked once at greater length with the wife - she told me the PBP story - and I got a good look at her bike. I forget who made the frame but it started life as a derailleur bike.
On the other hand, work takes me upon occasion out to Seattle, where it is positively raining bicycles. One of my other bikes is an Azor / Workcycles beast. There's even a dealer in Seattle, and I saw a few out on the street. I think I saw a few Rohloffs as well, but anyway lots of big fancy internal gear hubs. Some NuVinci for sure. There were so many bikes there... not sure I'd necessarily recognize a Thorn, but likely enough I would, and I sure haven't. Selective, yeah!
