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You are giving culture an awful lot of credit while completely omitting geography. Culture is locally adapted, and countries that are flat as literal pancakes a

You are giving culture an awful lot of credit while completely omitting geography. Culture is locally adapted, and countries that are flat as literal pancakes are particularly logical places for a bike friendly culture to develop.

TaylorAlexander 3y ago
Parent didn't mention geography. I was mostly replying to the comment about weather, age, and cargo capacity. Obviously the difference between the Netherlands and some other flat cold place is culture, though you are right hills can impact things. One thing we can do to reduce the issue with hills is set better (higher) power limits for ebikes. The current limit in the USA of 750 watts is way too low for cargo bikes. Even for my normal ebike which I run at 1400 watts, I find it feels safer as I can keep up with the flow of traffic on city streets (though I have a lot of lighting, safety gear, and experience and I would support licensing restrictions for higher powers). The power restrictions are even worse in the UK at maximum 250 watts, which is terribly low.