Originally Posted by fattsmann
Let's stick to comparing apples with apples here.
Fine. What's New York City got to do with the bicycling experience in 90 percent of the world?
Originally Posted by fattsmann
Most Chinese bicycles have non-working brakes ...
Gee, you'd think that in the absence of brakes, a billion Chinese might wear helmets to hedge their bets.
Alas, they almost universally don't.
And while Europe is geographically larger than the United States, it has something like 60 million more cars than the U.S., and helmet use among bicyclists there is negligible.