3 ms·
"It is sociably acceptable for every day adults to ride bikes, even a women in a skirt which was something you would never see in the states." This guy has obv
by enjo 17y ago
"It is sociably acceptable for every day adults to ride bikes, even a women in a skirt which was something you would never see in the states."
This guy has obviously never been to Portland, Denver, or a host of other cities where bikes are absolutely normal modes of transportation.
Hell just as I wrote this two women (in skirts) biked past my window (Downtown Denver).
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoTrue, but the normalization of cycling in a few select US cities is much more recent than the normalization of cycling across the northern European lowlands countries.
- jrockway 17y ago"Few select" Are there any major cities (say, the size of Oslo) where cycling isn't or wasn't always common?
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoMy understanding is that cycling became common when cities responded to the 1970s oil crises by dramatically increasing gas taxes (to reduce driving) and invested heavily in continuous cycling infrastructure.
- jrockway 17y agoYeah, I was going to post the same thing. I see people in skirts riding their bikes in Chicago all the time. It is so normal I would never even give it a second thought. I don't think the author has ever lived in a city, and is associating "Europe" with "city" instead of "city" and "city". (Oslo is kind of treacherous for cyclists anyway. Ride into one of the tram rails and you are likely to go down pretty hard.)