Posted on 08/22/2022 3:41:12 AM PDT by zeestephen
You are within driving distance to nine of the top 10!
Utrecht, Netherlands - Munster, Germany - Antwerp, Belgium - Copenhagen, Denmark - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Malmö, Sweden - Hangzhou, China - Bern, Switzerland - Bremen, Germany - Hannover, Germany
My first visit to Guangzhou (once known as Canton) was in 1981. On the main boulevards one found,during morning rush hour,a number of old,broken down Soviet style buses,a few Soviet style limos and about 800,000 bicycles.
You have to regard the additional hazards of bicycling in San Francisco or Portland - the close proximity of the homeless tents to the street traffic, strong likelihood of getting your bicycle “carjacked” by some homeless person, and the simple road hazard of riding through mounds of feces or pools of urine on the potholed streets. Not to mention getting a flat tire from all the hypodermic needles lying about.
Once you are on that bicycle, head for the nearest open road to the next town or the town after that, where cycling is vastly much safer.
Thanks for the translation. I had no idea Guangzhou was the new spelling. I thought Guangzhou was the original name of the huge industrial center northwest of Hong Kong.
What do they call the previously named Chinese dialect of "Cantonese?"
These are all pretty flat cities (although not sure about Bern) which makes a bicycle very practical for most people, and that’s key. But with the adoption of electric bikes cycling becomes practical even in cities with rolling hills. At least when the weather is good. Too bad they blew the $700 tax credit for electric out of the recent bill... although like the car companies the bike sellers would have just raised their price to compensate.
Lol, Similar to bases in Korea, back in the day, when the work day ended (70’s);
The tubeless tires have really gone a long way in reducing flats.
I would expect not when biking in those two cities can lead to one’s murder.
Many of those Rad-style bikes weigh at least thirty pounds, and kids silently pass me from the rear, on the sidewalk, going at least 25 mph.
I have to believe those bikes cause pedestrian fatalities and permanent injuries every week!
You’ll be glad to know that Britain is planning for bicycle registration, license plates, insurance requirements and drivers licenses/testing for over 16s.
Only way to go.
And by the way, bikers will be rquired to follow the vehicle code the same as all other drivers.
Many of those places have cool/cold weather which wouldn’t be so bad, but they also have a lot of rain, which would be annoying. But people in those cities ride in any and all conditions. And they’re much more fit because they do. The cost of buying and owning a car in some European countries is insane.
That’s fine as long as vehicle drivers give bikes the same respect as cars.
No way in our USA city will I bike on a main road with traffic when there’s an adjoining sidewalk. And yes, I regularity go through stop signs and even red lights when there’s no traffic. I have one safety rule for cars: Trust no one until you know they see you.
Bike-friendly Vilnius Lithuania has separate lanes and traffic lights for bikes.
That's coming to America. Expect insurance rates for ICE cars to skyrocket, and other measures to put the squeeze on drivers of ICE vehicles.
*** And yes, I regularity go through stop signs and even red lights when there’s no traffic.***
Just make sure there’s really no traffic. I once saw a bicyclist riding on the sidewalk, left side of the road, too, (illegal), run a red light, and ran into a car that had already approached the intersection.
Fortunately the driver of the car wasn’t going fast because the light had just changed, so the cyclist wasn’t hurt beyond scrapes, but his bike was messed up. Cyclist was cited by the police.
Maybe SF and Portland are Dyke Friendly?
In SF, the hills making biking difficult for many.
At least here in Michigan on Mackinac Island you can ride through what normally comes out the backside of a horse and simulate what the Amish have to do on a daily basis minus dodging needles and the threat of being bikejacked
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