Originally Posted by
chipcom
Bulltwinkle, Batman. The only thing that is hard about riding a bike in traffic for most people is overcoming their fear because they are not surrounded by a steel cage to protect them from their own stupidity. When you grow up doing it, taint hard at all...problem is too many people surrendered to the car culture and forgot how to ride a bike by the time they rediscovered it in middle age. The rules of the road are the same on a bike as they are in a car...the only rule that is different is who wins in a pissing contest.
Well, "hard", "complex" and "simple" are relative terms - meaningless when not comparing something to something else.
I'm just saying that on the simple-complex scale, regardless of where "riding a bike" may fall, "riding a bike in traffic" falls a significant distance to the right of that, and arguably right of (more towards complex) "driving a car in traffic" and maybe even right of "riding a motorcycle in traffic".
I also think many people underestimate the amount of additional complexity that "in traffic" adds to "riding a bike", though many also over-estimate it, believing that it is so complex that doing it safely is not possible. Perhaps that's what you're trying to say?