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The title completely misses the point of the article

• stetrain 7y ago
  Only if you don't enjoy clever titles.
  • Footkerchief 7y ago
    Cleverness at the expense of clarity is pretty much the essence of clickbait.
    • jiofih 7y ago
      Yes, I yearn for the day every news piece reads like a financial report, and creativity doesn’t get in the way of my act of information consumption.
• DoreenMichele 7y ago
  I assumed before reading the piece that the entire point was that miles traveled by bike were low on a per person basis. The point of the title is PR. It's an attempt to rebut the assumption that this is hard, so fat, out of shape Americans have no hope of aspiring to create a bicycle culture like the vaunted Dutch, who must all be super athletic as one of their many godlike virtues. There's nothing all that special about the Dutch people. They aren't all Olympic athletes. They aren't all brainwashed hyper virtuous types making hyper virtuous choices at enormous personal expense and suffering. They just have a built environment that helps make it easy for little old grandmas to take their bike somewhere. If you want to argue that it's a bad title for HN, sure. I totally agree. But the title wasn't written for HN and it's a perfectly fine title for it's intended purpose for most audiences.