I misread the thing I was looking at, it is per-capita, not absolute. Here is a graph of the number of people cycling to work, the peak is the late 80s/early 90

I misread the thing I was looking at, it is per-capita, not absolute. Here is a graph of the number of people cycling to work, the peak is the late 80s/early 90s before the helmet laws: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Percent-cycling-to-work-by-year-capital-cities-vs-all-other-areas_fig1_275338909 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Percent-cycling-to-work-...