Absolutely.
Although sales of bicycles did jump during the Covid pandemic. When they were in stock.
I suspect that many of those bikes are rusting quietly in garages and storage sheds.
The shocking stat is how few children are cycling.
Many of us "of a certain age" lived on our bikes as kids.
Go by any elementary school today and the bike racks are mostly empty.
Go by at 7:30a and there is a line of cars dropping off kids.
In fact, most schools build in the past 30 years have drop-off and pick-up lanes.
Atlantic article, firewalled
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/a...ecline/683377/
The number of kids who rode 6+ times a year dropped from 20 million in the 1990s to 10 million in 2023,
The kicker - only 5% of kids rode their bike "frequently".
Because I could bike to school in any weather, deliver newspapers,
bike to the drug store, bike to the park, bike where I shouldn't bike to,
(In Puerto Rico, no less.)
I had the ability to imagine biking across the country.
That is no longer a shared experience with younger generations.
You can't have adventures on a bicycle if you can't bike.
Organizations like the League of American Bicyclists addressed this issue.
ACA put its focus elsewhere.