Originally Posted by
Doohickie
I think I notice the commuters more, now that I ride a bike to work myself. However, most commuters are not "like me" (hi-viz jacket, good lighting, panniers). Most of the commuters I see are sidewalk crawlers and gutter bunnies on $100 X-Mart bikes. They aren't commuting out of choice but out of necessity. At first I wanted to pull them aside and tell them they're doing it wrong, but who am I to say? I suspect many of them have been commuting on bicycles far longer than I have.
^This^ I'm not sure if I notice more people on bikes because there are more out riding, or if it's just because I ride more and more now. Kind of like buying a new car, then you notice how many of the same type are on the road. But I'm optimistic there are more folks out on the roads now than there were three years ago when I started.