With a mildly beneficent city council and a few bike lanes here and there, I find Fort Worth to be a great place to ride a bike. It's virtually the same size as Portland (and may pass it in the next census). The reason I think bikes get along so well on the city streets around here? Simple- there just aren't that many bikes.

While I encourage people I know to ride because I think there are real benefits to doing so, I kind of like that bikes are fairly rare around here. Because they are, cars tend to give cyclists ample space because we are such anomalies to them.

I don't know that this is good or bad, it just is.