Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6 kilometres each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, the study suggests, annual global carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.
This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.
The Dutch also have a very flat country
They make ebikes now that really help with hills
As someone who’s relatively recently started riding a motorcycle I feel like at that point skip the half measure and get an electric motorcycle. Really don’t get the focus on bycicles in these discussions since I feel like it’s liable to make people think it’s a lost cause in areas like mine where the city is quite literally on a 20 degree slope minimum.
Wish I had an electric motorcycle to a degree but the 40 year old 110 is far more workable with what I intend to do with it what with reserve fuel and whatnot. Is it insane to plan a trip from SoCal to Washington on a 40 year old motorcycle? Yes. Will that stop me? Fuck no. My first trip up there was with a slowly dying 95 four runner I’ve got to up the standard set by 19 year old me.
True, but 4 hills = 20 miles.
That doesn’t get a lot of snow.
Oulu (Finland) is pretty big on cycling and they get plenty of snow