Originally Posted by
alan s
Year round bike commuters are a rare breed. Anyone who thinks the average person is going to ride a bike in a snowstorm is more delusional than the person riding the bike. I'd be surprised if any urban area in the US had more than 1% "real" bike commuters, meaning (at least to me) people who ride to work 4-5 times a week on average all year. People for whom their bike is the primary mode of transportation for getting to work.
Speaking personally, there are no other every-day all year commuters on the same route during my commuting times. But Georgia is near the bottom of the list in bike commuting. In places like Portland or Minneapolis with 6.1% and 4.5% respectively, it wouldn't surprise me if at least 1% were every day commuters.
You'd be surprised at the numbers from cities with most snow. Madison, Minneapolis, Denver, Salt Lake City (I didn't know that one had so much snow!) have high bicycle modal share. I'm getting all this from
League of American Bicyclists report by the way.