Bicycles are a central part of the transport stack that is finally replacing the kludge of private car ownership, and it's not hard to see why. A car is a noisy, expensive machine that converts money into fat, atrophies health and wellbeing, belches carbon, and promotes passivity and fragility. A bicycle is a silent, near-costless machine that converts fat into money, builds health capital, helps save the planet, and promotes agency and resilience. One of these things is not like the other.
