Originally Posted by
DiegoFrogs
I still think it's weird that I had to move from San Jose to a cobblestoned Scandinavian city to see people riding their bicycles for non-sport reasons... It doesn't make any sense! I thought maybe it was still going to be a very urban thing, but I see hundreds of bikes at train stations in the middle of farms near very small towns here in southern Sweden.
It's not weird at all. It makes perfect sense, especially when comparing a US metro region on the west coast to somewhere settled for roughly 1000 years prior to the advent of the bicycle.