Absolutely, same here. Amsterdam for example, most distances are about 4-5km. Inside the 'ring', which is a highway running in a circle around the centre of Ams

Absolutely, same here. Amsterdam for example, most distances are about 4-5km. Inside the 'ring', which is a highway running in a circle around the centre of Amsterdam, is considered to be Amsterdam the city, outside is mostly considered Amsterdam the suburban area, and the ring has a diameter of about 8km, which is probably a good measure for what people are willing to bike. Up to 10km still makes sense, too, but beyond that it tapers off really quickly. It really depends how long that takes though on a few factors. For example, in the Netherlands you can separate two distinct groups. One are those who cycle between cities, usually these are either old people for recreation, or much bigger, teenagers (12-18) who cycle from a small village to a nearby larger village or town to go to secondary school. Those people have two things in common, 1) they have nice bikes with gears and 2) they have very long stretches of fully separated cycling paths without any traffic or stop lights. They can pretty easily get speeds of 20 km/h and do a 10km trip in half an hour. The other group of people are mostly inner-city people who don't take their bicycle outside of the city and use it for shopping, seeing friends, cycling to work, to a station etc. They usually have what are called 'opa' and 'oma' bikes without any gears. And their trips consist of mixed traffic (quite a lot of separate lanes, but not everywhere) with a lot of traffic stops every minute or so. They get speeds around 14 km/h or so, and with the constant stops some effectively get more like 12 km/h. Their 10km trip suddenly takes 50 minutes, and that's just not really acceptable for a lot of people, particularly when you're in your suit for a morning meeting and it either rains or gets really warm. So it really depends. In big cities though, you'll rarely see 10km trips, 8km is the reasonable limit for most, 1-5km is typical (for example 1km for shopping, 2km for sports, 2-5km for friends or work or a station).