War on Motor Vehicles

[owlice]

All those bikes and ingrained in the culture, so why aren't there more bike racks? I found that very curious.

[Charlotte Berry]

All those bikes and ingrained in the culture, so why aren't there more bike racks? I found that very curious.

Not entirely sure. Probably like cars in a way, racks take too much space, clutter and eyesore. I notice in some videos, they just stack the bikes like pancakes. The utility bikes they use are cheap in quality and price so they don't care as much about scratches and such, or theft I guess.

I don't completely understand the culture. I do see some nice bikes here and there, but if you notice none of the bikes in the videos are like our. Our culture is mostly bent on racing type bikes even for casual use. There is much to learn indeed about this culture they have there. I'm wondering if it wouldn't be such a bad idea for bikes to be used like shopping carts. Common use, not personal and maybe that would solve a lot of problems with stalls and bike locks, etc. An extension of public utilities supported by the country or state.

[Eden]

There are places in the US that have tried common use bikes - it never seems to work out. It doesn't take long for the bikes to disappear or be destroyed....

[Catrin]

It also seems to me that our individual needs for bike fit differ so much that it would also present a problem. The older we get, the more physical issues some of us have that require certain features on a bike if we are going to be capable of riding it more than a couple of miles without pain.

[BikeDutchess]

All those bikes and ingrained in the culture, so why aren't there more bike racks? I found that very curious.

There are (the first was by the train station, the 2nd in a town center):