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No! Regular bike? Yes. Get your infrastructure in order. Stop wanting to be everywhere, all the time, asap. Cycling is twice the workout if it is a regular bike. Start getting your population healthy for once! Gah! It's like watching a good friend switching to light-cigarettes. "Because it is more healthy."

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Why gatekeep cycling? As far as I am concerned, anything that gets people out of their cars and onto bicycles is a good thing. If they like it, they might still switch to a normal bicycle later. If not, they're still an a bicycle instead of clogging the roads in their car

> Start getting your population healthy for once!

How do you do that? An eBike seems like a good first step.

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