Originally Posted by
closetbiker
You have to be joking. Plenty of people who can afford vehicle use in Asia and Europe ride bicycles on a daily basis.
Plenty, does not represent the majority of the numbers who actually use bicycles for transportation. And it is not a question of what they can afford, but rather how they choose to allocate their limited funds. There were plenty of people in the US who deluded themselves into thinking they could afford homes they couldn't...
It is a simple fact that as wealth increases, so does the interest in using walking or cycling decrease. Of course there are exceptions; however, I suspect you simply overlook the meaning of the word exception...