Originally Posted by buzzman

Really? In all honesty you and BCarfree have totally turned me off on the Portland model.

The idea of sitting around a city waiting for the next economic downturn hoping for an uptick in cyclists while riding on what sounds like a mess of poor infrastructure, presided over by Copenhaginistas forcing inadequate segregated bike paths down an unwilling populace's throats surrounded by cadres of simmering suburban motorists is not appealing.

And riding on jammed infrastructure, which Bcarfree claims "intimidates, maims and kills", amidst a herd of smugly dissatisfied bicyclists feels like an Orwellian nightmare. I'll take the Utopic, pie in the sky, enthusiasm of a city like NY, Minneapolis or Boston any day.

What in the world makes it such an awesome city to ride in?