Originally Posted by
Smaug1
If it takes appealing to the snooty or fashionistas to start the next bike boom, fine. That's not to say I'm onboard with 50 lb. bikes with not enough gears for any kind of hill. We know better.
Maybe it's the next bike craze to take hold after eBikes?
I wonde
noglider thinks of this. (I think you're a NYT subscriber, right Tom?)
You want to know what I think about
which part of the article? You should come visit. The variety of bikes, the variety of clothing styles of people on bikes, and the variety of the kinds of people riding bikes might impress you. For example we have Wall Streeters riding Citi Bike bikes, including the women with the hair/makeup/jewelry types.
A few years ago, I met a Danish grad student visiting NYC to write a story about bike culture. Where she's from, the term "bike culture" doesn't make any sense because there, riding a bike doesn't set you apart from the rest of the culture. I wonder where she visited. There are lots of bike-rich neighborhoods in NYC, each very different. But it's nothing like (I imagine) Denmark, the Netherlands, and all those places.