Aside from China/India/USA's negative feelings about cycling, don't you feel that their large land mass makes cycling difficult to promote? I do not agree that Taipei is an appropriate example of whether or not China & India will re-adopt cycling as their primary means of transportation. Taiwan is a small island with a dense population.

As for the USA, everything is so spaced out that I can't imagine cycling everywhere I want to go. The changes required to encourage cycling should include (but are not limited to) better urban planning and a fundamental shift in behavior. We do not have the public interest or legislative resolve to make that kind of change.