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
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.
I would expect not when biking in those two cities can lead to one’s murder.
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.
Bentonville Arkansas not mentioned.
Hmm...
I guess this place is the MTB capital... You can’t just get on a bike and simply go anywhere here. The town is still building and is building the bike trails around existing buildings.
Too many needles, pop ya tires.
Anybody who expected San Fran to appear on this list has little-to-no experience with bicycles.
But Lombard isn't the worst. Between Leavenworth and Hyde, Filbert street has a grade in excess of 30%.
Try and ride a bike in San Francisco and Portland with so many needles the only thing you’ll hear is psss psss psss psss