bananon [he/him]

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  • When I lived in Copenhagen, I biked every day, but really only to the metro station. The great bike infrastructure was coupled with great walking infrastructure, so there were very few times I actually needed a bike. Also seemingly paradoxically, better biking infrastructure also meant greater risk of crashing, simply because of the volume of riders. Rush hours are a real sight, seeing hundreds of people move in a single blob down the street. There’s as many rules of the road as we have for cars, and I’m honestly surprised they don’t require licenses. I had only been there for a couple months when I got in my first accident. Neither of us were hurt, but we fell in the road in front of an oncoming bus lol. I feel bad for the guy, my beater of a bike’s spokes got stuck in his super fancy brake and it snapped off. I’ll still take that crash over anything I’d experience in the US though. The real danger is the people on mopeds who use the bike paths. I saw it a lot with food delivery drivers unfortunately.

    Little fun Danish bicycle tidbit: pretty much everyone calls it cycling there. Biking is only for motorcycles, and “bikers” and “rockers” are what the media still calls gang members. Allegedly this is because of the Hell’s Angels and other biker gangs, who have been in Scandinavia for decades and still run a lot of the drug trade.