My gut reaction is that I usually see a few other commuters most days -- lots in the summer, not so many in the winter.

Yesterday on my way home (10 miles) I counted 16 other people on bikes. I'd guess that between half and two thirds were commuters. Yesterday was unseasonably warm, but windy. This morning, despite even better weather, I didn't see a single other person on a bike.

I think for me it depends on the route I take. Almost all the people I saw yesterday, including all of the ones I thought were commuters, were on arterial roads. About half my commute home yesterday was on residential streets, and I just saw a few kids on bikes there. This morning, when I saw no one else on a bike, about 80% of my route was on residential streets. I'm not sure how to interpret this. The cynic in me says that the other commuters aren't very particular about route planning and just use the obvious roads. The optimist in me says that there are lots of other commuters out there and they're just using different residential streets than I am so I don't see them. The lack of streets that cut through the maze of cul-de-sacs in my county speaks against the optimist. On the other hand, at my campus alone there are at least 100 people who biked to work on any given day and they've got to be getting there some way.

Great Falls, MT with a population around 60,000.

I know of two others who commute. One is a fair weather only commuter and the other rides in all but the nastiest weather.

I'm sure there are others I don't know about.

It might not be all 7 cars, but its 4 sometimes 5 depending on which train. Sorry to get you all excited :-) Its the ACE (Altamont Commuter Express) from Stockton to San Jose. Fours trains each way, every day, the 4th train is 4 cars only though.
We have such a mix. Athletic types, regular folks, young and old, $50 bikes to $5000+ machines, I see a recumbent get off when I am getting on in the afternoon, a few folders with internal gears, etc. But the racks are full at the stops either side of the half way point, if not sooner. I might ride Monday and I expect it to be full.

What gets me is the one guy that rides everyday, rain or shine, hot or cold. Just swaps out a road bike for an old mtn bike in the wet. He will ride 40 miles round trip daily I think it was no matter the conditions.

Nope! I go for weeks without seeing anyone . . . El Paso, home of cage addicts.

Great vid! It's hypnotic. I'm gonna try that perspective the next time I video one of my bike rides.

Likewise, I always see traffic on the paths when I ride them, especially around downtown, but I don't see many people riding on the north end of town where I live since it's not very bike friendly. At the moment I have one coworker who rides 80% of the time, and I see maybe 3-4 other riders per week. Still haven't seen the one regular who I often shared part of my route with last year (a lady, always with one pannier) out yet, but twice this past winter I did witness another cyclist riding through a snowstorm, and I saw tire tracks in the snow in front of my workplace quite a few times, so I know there's a handful of diehards up in Briargate.

My summer assignment is supervising a group of EMTs on the beach (south shore Long Island NY for reference point). Out of 14 bosses between the Lifeguard and EMT staff, 9 of us commute by bike at least semi-regularly. Most are coming from a distance of around 10 miles, 2 are within a mile or so, and one comes from about 20 miles away. Out of the 130 or so remaining lifeguards, many of the young and/or local ones commute by bike. Mostly that's who we see actually commuting, although there are lots of recreational riders out there. It's a great atmosphere to be part of. I wasn't initially into biking outside of the neighborhood, but it's a huge support system and also a wealth of knowledge when troubleshooting or looking into new toys. I didn't believe the guys at first, but they were right- I feel guilty on days I drive instead of biking. Hoping to do at least 3 of my 5 work days a week by bike this year.

Oh, and we wave to other bikers!

I live in Brooklyn and commute to Manhattan. On the worst days I will still see other commuters, and I'm not usually one of them. I watch on the Manhattan bridge as I go over on the subway. When I'm riding I'm always far from alone, except hmm, no exceptions. Even in my quiet neighborhood there are others out there. As we approach the bridge the cycling crowd thickens. In Manhattan it thins outs again as we all go our own way, but 1st Avenue has a steady stream in the dedicated bike lane. Just 3 or 4 years ago I'd be by myself on 1st once beyond 23rd st, but now there are riders up to where I turn at 42nd. And then there's Citibike. They're all over the place.

It's more like almost 1 per second while on the Hudson river Greenway.
I commute in to NYC from Northern NJ with a group of people who work in midtown, downtown. I go all the way to Brooklyn. The 2 Bridge Commute :-)

Southern town of about 100K here, moderately bike friendly for the region. I see probably one fellow commuter a week since I started commuting later in the morning. When I was riding in at 6:45 am in February the roads were all mine :)

I typically see at least 10 people commuting in either direction on my rides home in the late afternoon, and about half that in the morning (Auckland, NZ). When the weather is good I've found myself sitting at the lights with 4-5 other commuters. Weather is taking a turn for the worse now, though, and with it the numbers are dropping off as the fair-weather folks return to their cars.

haha sweet another Wilmington commuter! I've never seen one so it's nice to see one online at least. I live on Hinton Avenue (near Casey's on Oleander) and take the River to Sea bikeway downtown.

I was pleasantly surprised this morning, I saw 3 other commuters. I also saw a fourth guy on a bicycle who appeared to be drunk crash into a curb and land in somebody's front yard.

I think I would have been doubly pleasantly surprised to see that crash.

It probably sounds better than it actually was, he was going pretty slow.

Haha I ride that same route to Independence and then take the trail to work by the hospital. I'll be the guy with the bright yellow panniers, because, well, Southern drivers...

I've been riding a little in Brooklyn and Queens, two of NYC's so-called outer boroughs, which the city tends to neglect in infrastructure. Well, gee, there are bike lanes in a great many places, and on streets that don't have room, the single travel lane is being marked as a shared lane for motor vehicles and bikes. In other words, pretty much every street is becoming a bike route.

Mayor Bloomberg kicked this all off. Mayor Deblasio came into office in January, and he's known to be somewhat less pro-bike, though I expect him to be a better mayor overall. I hope he continues the current plans for bike infrastructure.

Unfortunately, in this area you really need to be 2 wheel savvy to even attempt non-recreational riding. Because of this, and the way our seasons are, and the generally bike-not-friendly laout of the streets etc, i often go 2-3 weeks seeing no one on another bike. That said, sometimes i see 4-5 people in a day, sometimes 2-3 in the span of a minute or less. A lot of the time they are going the same route i am, its like grocery shopping seeing the same person every few minutes (no, i'm not with them!!!). :D

- Andy

I was on the 2-lane highway and looking down from an overpass, I see another cyclist who is making his way towards the ramp up to the highway I'm on. I continue riding and pass the point where the on ramp and my lane merge, no sight of him but he was quite a way off so, that's it I guess. About 3km/2mi further along, I hear a "hello" (actually, bon jour) and this same fellow pulls up to me and since it is a wide shoulder portion of the highway (~3m/yd), we ride together for a couple of minutes and then, with a bye, he pulls ahead and off he goes. He was riding a nice Scott carbon cyclocross and obviously had more strength than I but it was nice of him to pull up and chat for a bit.

Well, i'm shocked, i've oficially seen at least 2 commuters on really nice bikes in 2 days, plus 4 rec riders...

Forecast calls for warm to hot daytime weather between now & weds, so i'm suspecting this number may rise dramatically...

- Andy

I miss seeing other commuters and a lot of bicycles on racks. Growing up, I didn't realize how progressive Colorado was, with a lot of people participating in outdoor activities, like cycling. In the mid-1990s, there was a large bike rack at the middle school I went to (the schools I attended in the south didn't have any at all), with usually around 20 bikes parked there, like a smaller version of bicycle parking lots outside schools in the Netherlands (although the local elementary school and high school didn't seem to have any bike racks).

I can see why the state is ranked among one of the top states for cycling.

Daily.

I now live in a small village where less bikes are... but when I go to larger cities for students, you see TONS of people with bikes.
An example of the bike-parkings near the railway stations of Leuven and Gent:

http://www.belgiumview.com/foto/smvote/0004817ac.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TT7gTXQXyf...40/fietsen.jpg

Here in Boston, previous long-term Mayor Tom Meninino was a staunch cycling advocate. He himself was about as “Fred” a cyclist as you could imagine, and took some ribbing of pictures on him on the road on his early morning outings. I always hoped I could encounter him as I rode though his neighborhood.

Nonetheless, he was a powerful and effective mayor and remade the city as a cycling model with numerous bike lanes and a very successful bike-sharing system (Hubways). Indeed he had, and the new mayor retains, a bike “czar,” Nicole Freedman.

Contrast him with Toronto’s Mayor, Rob Ford:

One of the huge problems I've seen is lack of bike racks in shopping centers and the like. If there were more, more people would ride, for sure. Might even be good for business?

I would ultimately like something between a bike rack and this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...arking_lot.jpg

- Andy

I live 20km from work so haven't cycled in yet. There are 2 lads in my department that cycle in regularly and probably 6 lads altogether working here that cycle. I never meet any other cyclists on the roads in the mornings but then I live in the ass hole of nowhere.

When I lived in Boulder, Colorado, 20% of the population (By most est.) rode to and from work! Some routes were jammed with folks going to and from. Man, do I miss home!!

Not sure how many were commuting, maybe only a couple, but I saw 15 (or so) other cyclists out this morning.

8 of them were a group of roadies that I see near my house some Friday mornings but the other 7 might have been commuting.

I'm pretty that's the most I've ever encountered in one morning ride around here!

I live on the west side of Milwaukee and commute downtown. I only see a one or two other commuters on my way into work, but I think that is due to the fact that less people are going in opposite direction. I know there are other bikers heading downtown (I see their tracks), but I don't see them as we are all heading the same way and travelling about the same speed. On the way home I will take a path (Hank Aaron Trail) and see more people in nice weather, but I am not sure all are commuters.

I bike to work twice a week in the southern part of San Diego County. I go through South San Diego, National City, Chula Vista, Back into San Diego, and end up in Imperial Beach (towns). On my ride, I usually see about 15 to 20 riders in the summer and maybe 8 to 10 in the winter. When it rains, I usually see 2 or 3.

5/27/14
I took a count today. 20 commuters. I mean people with packs or panniers. I saw about 7 people that looked like rec. riders or roadies. When I stopped for coffee I saw a group of roadies go by the other way. I stopped counting them at 50.

Back in the 90s, one year Toronto won some bicycle magazine's award as the most bike friendly city in North America, but our progress has been slow since then, with some backsliding, and a lot of other cities have been more aggressive in adding new bike supports and innovations.

Even so, we have a huge bicycling population, which I believe continues to grow (partly for demographic and economic reasons) and a few kilometers of new facilities get added most years, so we are now a bit of a dark horse, maybe a little behind the leaders, but still in the race.