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Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands

Vehicular Cyclists, or Middle-Aged Men In Lycra, or MAMILs, will set that standard.

These aren’t MAMILs. These are people who just want to use the most convenient way of getting around in a place where cycling is considered a valid answer to that question.

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klay1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
there will always be bad and good examples in all the groups. You can’t blame an entire group. I know a couple of MAMILs and they are all very careful, friendly riders.

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- Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Anecdotal evidence is merely evidence of an anecdote.
  
  Just because those people are decent (or maybe seem decent when they’re around you) does not mean that assholes do not exist.
  
  The point still stands that MAMILs cycle in spite of infrastructure, not thanks to. This is not the case in the vid, but probably is the case for the above commenter.
  
  Would you be comfortable sharing the lane with things that outweigh and outrun you by two orders of magnitude, where a forgettable bump for them would probably be your death, and where at best there’s a chance they might not notice or see you in a decent frame of time, at worst they’ll actively try to hurt you. I’d hate to cycle in such an environment.
  
  Vehicular Cycling is the Dark Souls of cycling. Dutch cycling, or Practical Cycling as I’d prefer to call it, is more the Animal Crossing of cycling.
  
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