This knitpicking over what people are wearing when they ride is just ridiculous. I wear what is comfortable on the bike, and cycling specific clothes are comfortable to me on the bike. You want to wear jeans or chinos or whatever, go ahead. There is already enough snobbery within the hobby, this just adds to it.

I will tell you what I have observed as a commuter in the United States. The bike lane is not taken seriously. Everything from busses loading and unloading to delivery trucks parked in it, taxis blocking it, drivers using it as an illegal passing lane, runners and joggers using it as their own personal track, pedestrians choosing to walk in it vs the sidewalk, drivers drifting into it instead of staying in their lane, in the winter the roads are plowed and the bike lane is not, etc etc etc. The United States is the home of the car, and specifically Michigan where I live, is the capital. So much of what Michigan has become is due to the popularity of the automobile, not the bike. The bike could be seen as the "enemy" of the car with more and more people going car free.

So when I read about how the cycling/infrastructure is over in Europe, there really is no comparison to me. The US is a whole different world compared to Denmark and Sweden and even though we are not that different, we are very different when it comes to transportation.