Unlike many American bikers, bikers in Amsterdam and Copenhagen bike at a generally uniform speed (about 20 km/hr), are non-competitive, rarely pass other bikers and do not cut to the front at lights. (Well there were a couple of exceptions in the video...) In spite of the large numbers it is pretty orderly.
The biggest paradigm shift for an American biker is to realize that your actions can impact other bikers behind you - and when you return home you realize that we really don't have very many bikers in Madison. Mike *********************************************** On 13 May 2010 at 12:22, Robbie Webber wrote: This video clip was posted on a Milwaukee list with the following comment: "Wow! If biking ever got this popular here, I would probably have to start walk commuting so I could complain about the dominant bike culture!! :)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AbPav5E5M We can only hope to have bike traffic jams like this! Honestly, I was a bit surprised that there wasn't one crash. It seemed there were a lot of turning movements, but I guess the faster video speed just makes it look worse than it is. And everyone obviously knows what they are doing and the standard "flow" of the intersection. Robbie Webber Bike Walk Madison Steering Committee www.bikewalkmadison.org Join our group on Facebook! _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
