We are not at war with cars and most of them realize that. Here in the US the chances of a Holland style cycling culture are very unlikely. We have greater distances to travel and we have hills. Most of the cycling I see from Holland is done on pool table flat roads. I looked up the average speed of a cyclist in some of the many pictures we get here and our skateboarders would drop the average Oma bike like a bad habit.
The other point is we don’t represent enough of a target to back lash against. Portland is supposed to be bike Mecca and yet they have less than 7 percent bike commuters and looking at the whole state of Oregon it is about 1 percent. The US average is less than 1 percent so how many of us is even noticed?

I am lucky that I live in a pretty bike friendly community and a bike friendly state. People tend to see us riding along and they smile. We have bike lanes on a good number of streets and even on some of our local expressways. There are a few motorists that will yell and shake a fist at us but they will yell and shake a fist at cars and trucks as well. Will people still look down on others riding old bikes with rusty chains and one broken brake lever? Yes, but that hasn’t changed in the last 20 years.