Awesome!!

[Charlotte Berry]

Wow, I just love this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AbPav5E5M

[Bike Chick]

How cool! Did you watch the ones next to it with people commuting in the rain and snow? I wonder how we could that to catch on in the US? Why is it so popular in the Netherlands? Is it because gas is so expensive?

[arielmoon]

I watched a bunch of them and I am fascinated. No helmets though... not even the kids.

[Jaclyn]

There's an interesting article on the helmet issue in today's WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...le_Lifestyle_5

[Tri Girl]

I've seen that video before, but never the snow and ice one. THAT was interesting. I can't imagine cycling in the snow and ice. They are hard-core. Although, if that's the way your society is, you do it no matter what. I would love to live there (for that and other reasons).

That's an interesting article in the WSJ. I guess when it's a part of the culture like it is, changing that at the base level would be difficult.

[malkin]

There's an interesting article on the helmet issue in today's WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...le_Lifestyle_5

Interesting. Pretty weak arguments against helmet use, especially when taken together:
1. Helmets are dorky.
2. Wearing helmets makes cycling look dangerous.

We are dangerously dorky.

[bikegurl]

If some of the cities in America became more bike-friendly, it would help our neighborhoods (more people being in contact with each other, instead of consumed with their little world inside their car) and I think it would have a lot of other good effects, too. Where I live, many people are extremely poor. Often their car is an ego thing. If somehow, the need to have a car was changed, it seems that it might help America's poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Having a more bike-friendly system would probably also help the obesity problem!

[Charlotte Berry]

Why is it so popular in the Netherlands? Is it because gas is so expensive?

Well, I guess there are clues in this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HgLqts3qJs

[Charlotte Berry]

I saw the one in the snow, and one person even had a baby on the handelbars! I have a friend who teaches at the University of Amsterdam, and he had a head injury once from his commute like this, but it was not on a bike path and he was hit by a car. He learned the Italian language from scratch as a way of regaining his cognitive skills. He told me on the bike paths, never hardly but watch out when competing with cars on rural roads. Holland is full of bike paths which riders use in a very casual easy going manner. Just look at their bikes? It's much different then riding a fast road bike perhaps either going fast or training with your head down. They feel the dangers are much less, and the freedom of their culture much more important.

[Charlotte Berry]

This is astonishing! I would welcome such a problem the big cities here! I hadn't see hardly any of these videos until yesterday. It's certainly a breathe of fresh air! Going to Costco now, where you won't find a single bicycle anywhere in the whole parking lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z12dc7300yc

[nikkoblu2]

That's just the coolest thing! It's almost hard to believe a place like that actually exists...a cyclist's utopia