1: Have you ever ridden a bicycle?
2: How many bikes do you own?
3: Have you ever bought a bike for someone else?
4: Is there a "bike-sharing" or are there short term bike rentals available where you live?
5: What can we do to encourage more people to ride bikes?
My Answers:
1: Have you ever ridden a bicycle? Yes, thousands of miles starting when I was about 8 years old.
2: How many bikes do you own? Three
3: Have you ever bought a bike for someone else? I bought one for my nephews when they were growing up.
4: Is there a "bike-sharing" or are there short term bike rentals available where you live? Capital Bikeshare, I used the bikes for several years as part of my daily commute.
5: What can we do to encourage more people to ride bikes? Build more protected bike lanes and ticket drivers who endanger cyclists.
Please share your answers in the comments.
1. Yes, I've ridden bikes since I was six or seven.
ReplyDelete2. I own a trike now.
3. I bought bikes for my sons when they were six or seven.
4. I have no idea. I haven't ridden mine since the pandemic.
5. People want to ride or they don't.
I may move to a trike in a few years.
Delete1: Have you ever ridden a bicycle? Yes
ReplyDelete2: How many bikes do you own? I had three bikes as a child and one as an adult.
3: Have you ever bought a bike for someone else? No
4: Is there a "bike-sharing" or are there short term bike rentals available where you live? No
5: What can we do to encourage more people to ride bikes? That’s personal choice
It is interesting where bikesharing has grown, and where it has not.
DeleteIt IS interesting. It was huge in Sevilla when we lived there.
Delete1: Have you ever ridden a bicycle? Yes
ReplyDelete2: How many bikes do you own? One
3: Have you ever bought a bike for someone else? Yes - my son and daughter.
4: Is there a "bike-sharing" or are there short term bike rentals available where you live? Not really. Sheffield in a very hilly city where riding bikes is generally for masochists and fitness freaks. You can rent bikes out in the nearby Peak District.
5: What can we do to encourage more people to ride bikes? Flatten the hills and ban motor vehicles from the roads. Also put back-up electric motors on the bikes and small refrigerators containing cold drinks.
I was thinking, electric bikes make the hills rideable, I rented them in San Francisco a couple of times.
Delete1. Yes.
ReplyDelete2. One.
3. I have not.
4. There was, but it kind of disappeared.
5. More dedicated bike lanes. More access.
You have access to the wonderful ring of parks.
DeleteHave you ever ridden a bicycle? Yes it's been a few years now since I last rode a bike. But it's got to be like men. You never forget how to ride them.
ReplyDeleteHow many bikes do you own? 3
Have you ever bought a bike for someone else? No.
s there a "bike-sharing" or are there short term bike rentals available where you live? Several of them.
What can we do to encourage more people to ride bikes? Not sure.. but I do know living in a city they greatly improve on getting around and not paying car storage fees, and not sitting in traffic.
And you can ride across that wonderful old bridge into downtown.
Delete1. Oh yes, I've ridden bikes. As a kid, it was my main form of transportation.
ReplyDelete2. When I was a kid, I had a tricycle and then a bicycle. I owned one bike as an adult for a few years. Both my bikes were "single speed." I've never learned how to ride a bike that has gears.
3. I've never bought a bike for someone else.
4. Edmonton had some e-bikes for awhile, but they were not as popular as those e-scooters and they disappeared.
5. Make cars unaffordable.
The shift to shifting is easy.
Delete1: Have you ever ridden a bicycle? as a kid all the way up until I bought a car at 18.
ReplyDelete2: How many bikes do you own? I would think four.
3: Have you ever bought a bike for someone else? I have not.
4: Is there a "bike-sharing" or are there short term bike rentals available where you live? Sadly, no.
5: What can we do to encourage more people to ride bikes? Make them readily available. And make riding them safer in traffic.
Traffic is a major issue in many areas, I largely quit riding in Kentucky over safety. From here I can ride into Washington DC, with only a couple of blocks of side streets, the rest on pedestrian and bike paths.
Delete1. yes
ReplyDelete2. one - I got it when I was 10 years old and still have it (so it is 64 years old)! It is a lovely blue Schwinn but I no longer ride it - afraid of falling...
3. yes, for my kids and grandkids
4. in Chicago
5. We have great bike trails here in my area so there are lots of bikers.
My Schwinn is about 55 years old, it is Red.
Delete1: Have you ever ridden a bicycle? Yes!
ReplyDelete2: How many bikes do you own? None at the moment
3: Have you ever bought a bike for someone else? Just from Sears.
4: Is there a "bike-sharing" or are there short term bike rentals available where you live? Yes, they are scattered around town.
5: What can we do to encourage more people to ride bikes? Create more bike lanes.
Feeling safe in traffic, and not roasting in the sun.
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