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I think it's because navigating adult life on a bike is a skill people learn while going through university. For everybody else, bikes are just a stepping stone
by usrusr 10y ago
I think it's because navigating adult life on a bike is a skill people learn while going through university. For everybody else, bikes are just a stepping stone to being allowed to drive.
If you correlate cycling with wealth and education, I suspect that the link with education will be much stronger. It might even be a bidirectional causality, with people who can't wait for earning their first car being much less likely to "waste" years on education.
- Symbiote 10y agoIf we're generalizing to all of Europe, which is obviously unwise, then cycling is a skill used to get to school or college. Unfortunately, I don't speak another language well enough to search for statistics outside Britain and Ireland.