Originally Posted by
alan s
I don't know firsthand, but every video posted on BF by someone attempting to show how great bike commuting is over there looks like a huge bike traffic jam of depressed people. Everyone is poking along at what looks like around 10 mph, no helmet and staring straight ahead. Maybe that's not the reality, but it sure looks unappealing to me.
This x100. One of my reasons for riding a bike is to get around the city faster than motorized traffic. I go nuts just getting behind a slowpoke in a cycletrack;if things were like Copenhagen/Amsterdam here,I'd just walk and take Metro.