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Dan Field's avatar

Amazing how TSC always findings such topical issues to discuss. I did have a bad accident on the bike on a bike trail which made me nervous and reconsider the adage "there are old bicyclists and there are bold bicyclists but there are no old, bold bicyclists".

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Al Lewis's avatar

So the other comment is more of historic interest. People assume that the Dutch, what with their windmills and tulips and dykes and clogs, have been riding bikes since the Flood.

Quite the opposite, theirs was as car-centric a culture as existed in Europe, until the 1973-74 Arab Oil Embargo, where they were the only country in Europe that didn't cave and stuck with Israel. Instead, (among other fuel-saving measures) they created carless Sundays and it didn't take long for them to figure out that being carless was a great thing and they started turning their transportation culture 180 degrees.

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