Biking is too dangerous! Barriers to biking and debunking the myths

Eat Local — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 15:11:58 +0000

Cycling is a great way to get around. It’s healthy, efficient, fun and sustainable. As such I’m always perplexed when people in North America find every excuse to avoid utilitarian cycling.

It’s not necessarily that people here are inherently lazy; in fact in many cases it’s on the contrary -- many of these people who avoid cycling spend hours in the gym several times a week.

I am baffled as to why people would be willing to pay a monthly fee to sit on an exercise bicycle in the gym when they could instead be cycling outdoors for their daily commute or for running errands.

Too lazy? Take a bike! Urban bicycling is for lazy people

Eat Local — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:17:08 +0000

Here in Canada, as in the United States, people tend to generally view bicycles primarily for recreation or sport. Thus, when someone asks me how I arrived somewhere and I tell them I rode my bicycle, they naturally assume that I am athletic, brave, unusual, always late and I probably need to take a shower.

In reality however, I arrive on time, I’m not sweaty and I rode my bike not for a workout, but rather au contraire, I rode my bicycle because I am lazy.

I step outside my front door and hop on my bike because I’m too lazy to go downstairs in the parking garage to get the car. I pull my bike up to the front door at my destination because I’m too lazy to drive around looking for a parking spot then having to walk from the car to the building.

James D. Schwartz

Biking is too dangerous! Barriers to biking and debunking the myths

Too lazy? Take a bike! Urban bicycling is for lazy people