It's a flat college town with serious parking shortages. Of course they bike.

Similar to NC State University, the most important facility affecting the popularity of cycling is bike parking. When I attended there, there was inadequate bike parking and the police were cutting the locks and confiscating bikes locked to railings and other attractive objects near entrances. We got the school to greatly increase bike parking and the railing problem stopped, and the bike volumes increased.

When I attended NCSU, there was a pretty serious harassment problem if you rode on the street instead of the sidewalk. Most of the cyclists rode on the sidewalks, and that's where the accidents were concentrated. Recently, NCSU took the step of marking sharrows in the travel lane outside of the door zone. The harassment problem appears to be much less. Gainesville appears to be taking the opposite approach, designating the sidewalks as bikeways. I doubt it has any effect on increasing cycling.

ILTB challenged the idea that anybody was creating sidepaths in urban areas in the US. I was just providing a documented example.