Do people in your country bike around a lot?

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1. Most people think of a biking as a sport, and not a way how to get to work. So cyclepaths are usually packed on weekends or evenings but empty around morning.

2. I live in a very small town in Sweden and I see a lot of people on bikes. The vast majority of children also bike to school rather than walk or get driven. Though I’ve been to Stockholm for a few days this summer and I haven’t really seen a lot of bikes. Most people either walked, drove (traffic was… ooph), or used those electric scooters you can rent. So I guess the situation is different from place to place even in the same country 👍

3. Using a bike is fairly rare here in my city…at least,as an everyday form of transport.

   Cars, scooters or the bus are far more common.

   Some people use them on Sunday, when much of the city centre is closed to traffic.

4. 1. in city cycling : not very often .You can spot cycling people here and there but its not very often .The infrastructure is bad(very bad?) and therefore you have to be a little bit insane to use the bike in the crazy traffic of Bucharest . Other cities are not much different
   2. In between cities cycling : not at all . In my 25 years of life i never heard anybody using the bike as travel mean . There are people using the bike in between cities but their main goal is the have a nice trip not to reach destination X .Their goal is to use the bike not to go grandma or some friends 200 km away

5. No, there’s no good infrastructure for that. Most people use their own vehicle or public transportation

6. I don’t know if anywhere can compare to the Netherlands (sadly) when it comes to cycling infrastructure, culture etc

   On a side note, I saw a video on YouTube about Paris and the explosion in cycling numbers there, and it looked like there were thousands of people cycling. It also looks like their mayor is taking it very seriously and making the necessary changes to streets and cycling infra. I assume you’re not in Paris?

7. In Northern Italy it’s fairly common, mostly in the middle sized cities of Emilia and Veneto (Ferrara, Reggio, Modena, Padova and even the mainland parts of Venice are some good examples). Bolzano and Trento, although being in the Alps, also have extensive networks of bike paths since they are located in a wide valley. Milan and Turin also do well but I guess the size of the cities plays an important role, so it’s more common to use public transit or drive.

   Central and Southern Italy is more hilly so it’s harder to get around by bike and way less people do it, but there are some flat cities where it’s pretty common, like Florence, Pisa and Pescara.

8. Only as a sport. Cycling through Prague is suicide.

9. Yes. At least in the cities. I don’t own a car. I go everywhere that’s local by bike.

10. In Ljubljana they bike quite a lot as a transport because infrastructure is not that bad, Ljubljana is flat and distances are not that big.

    But otherwise cycling has become even more popular as a form of recreation and it seems that nowadays everyone cycles. I think electric bikes helped because our country has many hills and now even older and people that are not super sporty can cycle.

11. Maybe in the top 5 largest cities but outside from that the car takes over more and more and biking is also kinda seasonal. People will bike around during summer but the other 9 months it’s the car that’s getting picked.

12. As always it depends where you live in Germany. In my town bikes make up 35 to 40% of all traffic. So I would say yes.

13. I’m from Copenhagen. We bike a lot, not just for sports, but also for commutes. I basically go everywhere on my bike. I used to ride about 15km to work, now I ride 30 to school. I’ve gone about 3000km on my bike this year (according to Strava) despite the pandemic keeping me at home for the most part.

14. Bikes everywhere in city centers here in Flanders and efforts are made to connect towns with good biking paths everywhere(instead of just driving on the side of the road as was the habbit)

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    As a kid I biked everywhere and as an adult I’ll take my bike to go to my grandparents 10 or so kilometers away on occasion. You make a day out of it. Bike over there, stay with them for a bit, near them is a coffee shop, shop around, bike back home. It’s a nice Sunday.

15. It’s a lot more common in small towns and villages where the distances are short rather than big cities with a lot of traffic. Biking infrastructure has started to develop more recently.

16. It’s very uncommon in urban areas in Greece, where the current infrastructure is very hostile towards cyclists and pedestrians. It is, however, gaining popularity in the countryside.

17. __YEEEEEEESSSSS__, we do.

    But you already know that, OP.

    I missed cycling so much when I lived abroad. It’s so easy and makes life so much simpler. Too bad that the infrastructure just wasn’t there and I wasn’t trying to get myself killed so I had to wait till I moved back to NL. I am so happy that internationally more places are becoming bicycle friendly so everybody can experience the joy and freedom of cycling!

18. No, and there are a few reasons:
    1. The infrastructure is very bad
    2. Cycling is seen as a hobby, and not a mean of transportation to work or school

19. We bike more and more but it’s still not the norm. Also it’s hard to safely park your bike. I got mine stone 3 days ago, it was locked in the locked bike room of my building…

20. Relatively. I always see cyclist on the road almost every day. I also think old people bike a lot since many don’t own a car, especially within the village or town. It’s not common, but not a rare occurence.

21. In the UK in general not so much, but I live in Cambridge and *everyone* cycles here. It’s not the Netherlands, the infrastructure is not great, but people cycle in spite of it. The size of the city and its flatness help.

    In Bucharest: no, nobody except food delivery guys and crazy people like me. I’d cycle if I’m not going too far, know a route mostly on side streets rather than main artieries, or it’s off peak hours with not much traffic. Nights out in summer when the streets are emtpy at 1:30am for example.

22. In my country, no.

    In my bubble in downtown Helsinki, very much so, even if I think that the cycling infrastructure in Helsinki frankly sucks.

23. In most of the UK, probably not, it really depends on whether it’s rural or urban, and if it’s quite hilly or flat. My hometown of York is really good for cycling and a fair amount of people get around that way, in Yorkshire they even hosted the Tour de France one year in 2014, they started in Leeds and went across Yorkshire. They still haven’t taken some of the yellow bike decorations down from that year.

24. It really depends on the city. My city has rather bad cycling infrastructure (but there are always some cyclists in the city center), but in Salzburg it is quite popular, probably because the public transport isn’t so good there and the city is rather small.

25. Cycling is kinda popular as a recreation activity, but almost no one uses a bike as a means of transportation. Our cities are terrible for getting around by bike.

26. The time when it’s not snow or ice on the ground I’d say yes.
    I bike to buy groceries, I bike to my parents 1.5 km away, I bike to buy pizza, I bike to throw shit in recycling containers, I bike to pick up packages and so on.

    *But* if it’s pouring down I will use my car. And to work it’s 16 km so yeah I use car to that as well.

27. Groningen, Netherlands, we do, mostly between close towns and in the City, but not really from larger town to larger town.

28. I’d say yes, we commute to work etc, but having visited NE I saw there where biking paths between towns (in Denmark too) which isn’t really a thing here, I mean of you live in the north the next town over with a population of over say 3000 will be like 50km, 50K people and we are talking about over 200km, even more of you live far from the coast

29. Island in Greece. Yes, a lot bike. It’s a convenient and quick way to get about. Same in big cities.