Originally Posted by randya

This is a description used by the City of Portland to categorize cyclists. It is discussed in a BikePorland.org thread here



By my estimation, the true die-hard Vehicular Cyclists represent the 0.5% of cyclists comprising 'the strong and the fearless'; the remainder of the cyclists and potential cyclists fall into the next two categories. Just another way of saying that the VC crowd are a small, elitist minority and that, if you want to truly get more people riding bikes, you need to provide more than a motor vehicle-filled streetscape for them to work with.