Originally Posted by notfred
I don't worry about it. My coworkers all take the bus. That's fine with me. If they ask me for cycling tips, I'll give them, but I don't want to hear about how the bus is great any more than they want to hear about how cycling's great.
This is similar to the approach I take (well, except that my city of 500,000 has virtually non-existent public transport, but I digress). For one thing, people who don't want to commute by bicycle will always find a reason. There are issues regarding the perceived effort, the status and the perceived danger. Even after you answer all their objections, there's always the old "I just don't want to", to which there is no answer. Secondly, as a car free commuter cyclist, the last thing I want is people like this taking up cycling without any kind of formal training, putting me in danger and giving the government just about all the incentive they need to start taxing cycling. Forget it, I like beating the car-centric system, not being part of a bike-centric system with the same undesirable attributes.
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