It’s as easy as learning to ride…well, a bike. And the thing is once you have learned is not something you ever forget you can do.
Almost all of us learned to ride as kids.
Most people remember all too well their first bike, and they do so with happy care free memories of childhood:
Long sunny days playing with friends, trips to the park with our parents, riding to class…
For many people, bicycling never stops and continues right into their 80’s and 90’s and has been an intricate part of their entire life.
For others riding stops the moment they get their driver’s license.
But no one should ever stop riding. There, it’s been said. I’ve said it.
There are different reasons why people stop, some people never stop, and other people never start when it comes to bikes,
but there are a multitude of reasons why we should all ride bikes and make them part of our everyday life.
If you’re taking a strict view on the world’s most bike-friendly cities, the eventual list would mainly take in a smallish patch of northwest Europe.
One such rating table, produced by the Denmark-based cycling advocacy group Copenhagnize,
has more than half its top 20 bike-friendly places clustered around the Netherlands, France, Germany and Denmark.