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In Copenhagen I can only claim a –5°C to 25°C range, but over 60% of people commute by bicycle. Few workplaces have showers, and even where they exist, not man

In Copenhagen I can only claim a –5°C to 25°C range, but over 60% of people commute by bicycle. Few workplaces have showers, and even where they exist, not many people use them. It's not necessary – we aren't training for the Tour du France on the way to work. A reasonable bicycle costs around €250-600. It should easily last 5 years. The only bicycle-only clothes I own is a pair of waterproof overtrousers (€15-ish). I seem to get a puncture about every 18 months or so. I can fix it myself for €1 (patch) or €5 (new tube), or pay someone about €20 to fix it for me. The delay at either end is measured in seconds, not minutes. Cycle parking is almost always more conveniently located than car parking. My bike is "locked" the Danish way, with just a rear wheel lock. I have occasionally spent 5 minutes looking for my bike, when I park it somewhere busy and forget where I left it, or someone has moved it to sweep up leaves. (I have done the same with a car, except for the leaves.) > Then there's the usual bike lanes/trails/crazy driver problem. Make it safe enough for a 7 year old child to cycle to school, and the most expensive part of the job is done. The rest (parking, showers, free repairs etc) is just decoration. (But copy the Netherlands if possible. Copy Denmark if the Dutch way appears politically unachievable.) > Almost everything I stated was for the scooters too, it's just that they are slow and ridden by utter morons about 50% of the time, which shows I guess they are tapping a new market, since bike riders would never use them in that manner. With the assumption that approximately everyone in Copenhagen is a bike rider, I claim that it's the rented e-scooter that turns people into morons. I don't know why, but something about them makes normal people decide to dump them in the middle of the footpath, or have 3 people zooming around on one through a pedestrian area. After less than a year, the e-scooters rental were banned from starting or ending in the city centre.

jml7c5 5y ago
>Few workplaces have showers, and even where they exist, not many people use them. It's not necessary – we aren't training for the Tour du France on the way to work. A big factor here is that Copenhagen is quite flat. It's easy to pick a comfortable pace that stays below the "sweat threshold". If hills (even small ones) are involved, it can be impractical to move slowly enough to stay below that threshold.

jml7c5 5y ago

>Few workplaces have showers, and even where they exist, not many people use them. It's not necessary – we aren't training for the Tour du France on the way to work. A big factor here is that Copenhagen is quite flat. It's easy to pick a comfortable pace that stays below the "sweat threshold". If hills (even small ones) are involved, it can be impractical to move slowly enough to stay below that threshold.