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Cyclists in Copenhagen travel a total of 1.2 million kilometers by bike every day. This is the equivalent of cycling to the moon and back -- twice!In Denmark bicycling is not a matter of age or social status, but a common and often preferred use of transportation among the population.
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Pretty nice when you live on flat land and don't have a 40 to 50km drive to work.
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What a lovely bicycle culture. Foot rest on traffic lights and free city bicycles!
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And yet almost no one wears a helmet...
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I've biked in 105, but it was 50% humidity, and hardly broke a sweat. Why? It was just to the pool a mile away, so if cities were built more compact so you didn't have to bike more than 2 miles on level terrain, biking would be feasible in ANY environment. Cities in America should center population around rail lines. You bike to the rail station and use the train to get around further and rent a bike at the station you get out at. It would take decades of redevelopment, but it's feasible.
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The only people who claim it to be "Shangri-La" are people who've never lived here or are from third world countries. It's far from that, but not having a car in the US is occupational suicide. Places like Philly, San Diego, and New York can get away with bikes transportation but not anywhere else. For example: It's 101 degrees outside right now. I would burn or dehydrate on a bike.
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Lived in Japan for 2 years without a car and only a bike and subway/train ticket year-pass. Biking is ubiquitous in Japan I admit, I witnessed it, but it is not like the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia where they have an infrastructure devoted to bicycles, in Japan you have to bike on narrow sidewalks everywhere.
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LOL not an excuse. For American to be the "Shangri-La" people claim it to be, there would be a more Danish lifestyle.
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Nope, I'm American but I've lived in 4 continents and been to every Western European country except Portugal, Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland, and USA is NOT rich. A country isn't rich when all the poor own cars, a rich country is where the wealthy bike or take public transport. If the States were rich, there wouldn't be so many cars and the trains would be cleaner and world-class. That's my spiel.
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I love Denmark!! I would like to go there!!
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Well, in Denmark and Netherlands for instance, we can have very bad weather any day, all around the year, but i still see ALOT of people using bikes to travel, including myself.
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Denmark have s shitty weather!!:O
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Danish people ride bike in every weather - snow, rain, hot, cold...
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Well, most US cities have shitty weather which really makes a car useful.
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Just like us Dutch people.. This is basically pretty much the same like us.
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I live in Australia, so when I went to the UK it was quite good compared to what I am used too.
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Saying European is even a little to generous unfortunately. The UK is terrible when it comes to cycling.
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Wow! Nobody's fat! This will never catch on in most US cities until the oil runs out and then most will just scream about that. It's way too sensible for Americans who feel entitled to a life of oil burning and religious stupidity.
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you should master the sound !!
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@TheNickjan what law is broken then.... and who needs a helmet when you participate in the safest way of transport there is. A ladder is way more dangerous, but nobody would think of wearing a helmet then right? It makes more sense to wear a helmet in a car.
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No wonder so many people in the UK look over weight and unhealthy. Very few adults cycle.
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