Reasons you can't bike

I'm a zealot. You're a zealot. Sometimes we lose sight of the bigger picture. The bigger picture is this: Not everybody likes to ride a bicycle. This columnist in Oregon passes on his reasons why he doesn't like to bike for transportation.

• Riding a bicycle hurts.
  
• Riding a bicycle is hard work.
  
• You get hot and sweaty in the summer.
  
• You get cold and wet in the winter.
  
• Cycling takes too long.
  
• You're too old or too young or too frail to ride a bicycle.

The writer concludes that bicycling has to get easier if we seriously expect people to use a bike for transportation.

"I'm totally in favor of reducing reliance on cars. We need to design and build more compact, walkable cities and neighborhoods so that fewer car trips are necessary. We need, above all, to create public transit systems that are just as comfortable and convenient--if not more so--than car commuting."

Via Blair. Tags: oregon, cycling, bike, commute, opinion, changetheworld