One could posit that there is no "bike culture" in North America.

To be sure there are collectors, romanticist's, historians, tourers' , racers and unracers, and daily riders but to be a culture you must be deeply imbedded in the fabric of society and cycling seems to be less and less so all the time.

An easily understood example is "car culture". It eats up a large portion of our income, our taxes for infrastructure and our streets and towns and stores and almost everything else is designed around it. Think "drive-thru", parking, garages, etc. Even the emerging "pet culture" supercedes any cycling culture. Just count the pet food stores and the aisles dedicated to pets in all the stores.

The fastest growing cycling trends involve cars as much as bikes. Mountain bikes, fat bikes et al spend as much time on a rack or in a pickup as on the trail.

When money for Interstates is used to build cycling infrastructure then perhaps we can say there is a "cycling culture". This is not a good or bad thing, just a reality.

For background, yes I own a car and a camper van/SAG wagon, but I believe that both Canada and the US should stop making the motorized vehicles "king of the road". That movement must come from a large portion of the population to be effective.

Meanwhile we must not give up the ship. The fact that Bike Forums even exists shows a glimmer of hope that an actual "culture" may one day exist. Ride on!