>>Which may be all fine and dandy if you're on the races. But I'm not trying to race on my bike, to me it's a vehicle for transportation. I tried turning the piece connecting the handlebars with its axle 180 degrees, but now it's too far back and my knees are hitting the handlebars.
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>>IMO, they screwed it up. Where's the choice? All bikes are like this, you can't find the old type frame anywhere.
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>Road bikes have changed very little in the last 40+ years (I've been riding them since 1976). More gears, better materials and so-called "compact" frames, but the ergonomics are pretty much the same.
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>Other types of bikes come & go in fashion - cruisers, commuters, hybrids, mountain bikes, ... You're not looking very hard, the last 10 or so years there's been a major renaissance in bike design and arguably there's *never* been more choice.
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>Sounds like you're an Electra kind of guy: http://www.electrabike.com/way-to-roll/flat-foot-technology
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>If you can get past the hipness, the ergonomics would probably work for you.

That's more like it... or the bikes I grew up with. These guys seem to have discovered and patented warm water (or, to translate from Serbian, the hole in the flowerpot).

As for the hardness of looking... I feel just the same as when I was in the US and complaining about items which can't be found on shelves (full milk yogurt, sardines in oil, third kind of young cheese, ajvar, parsley leaves, kohlrabi, rye bread without caraway, chocolate with rice, propane kits for the car, steam cleaner which would actually boil the water, grinder adapter for the drill, clogs made of real wood, espadrillas (cloth/twine shoes), men's socks in any color but the three non-colors, men's swim pants shorter than 60cm, larger size hats, dark Amstel or Heineken, french cars, lye, scythe, curtain hangers which screw into the ceiling, Kinder eggs, full fat cheese, ballpoint pens in blue (unless you buy ten other colors in a set)...). All other people from our diaspora would say "you can find all of it, but you need to know where to look". Driving 100 miles to get ingredients for a lunch is not what I call "available" - it's more of a well hidden kind.

Perhaps I could find a bike of that frame type if I went around all the six bike shops around time, or spent six hours surfing all the places that sell them and then drove to Belgrade to see if they really have it or they just put it on the website to see if there's interest (amounts to the same 100 miles drive). I've been to three shops, and in one of them I didn't even look at the bikes as they are a sport equipment shop. The other two are where we bought our bikes, and they are ALL of the mountain bike frame, even though two of them don't really look like that, but the geometry is the same.