… here I sit in Budapest (my second home next to Dresden/Germany), everyday I cycle through this beautiful yet rundown city, which is often hell for bikers. (No bike roads, holes in the street, sometimes literally big enough to put your bike in). Imagine: two years ago almost all daily bikers here greet & knew each other (by face or bike). Its a town of 3 Million People. Now there are more, too much to know them personally. But it is still the only community to find here (in public places).
Here pensioniers look for food in trash bins. So the government (thins it) has other problems than bike roads. Our official CM is the biggest in the world (60000), but it is a violation of the original idea. Cops blog the streets, You have a fixed route etc. The bikers on the alternativ CM get usually arrested.
Well… each day, during work (I am a writer) I visit Your site, & get away from all this. It is actually one of the very few websites (next to the site of Cheryl Dunn) I visit. Here I dream of bikes (where I am born, next to the dutch border everyone is riding bikes) & I dream of different cities, of this carjungle here becoming a better place to live. & it is starting, more & more bikes everyday. Still no “Sweetpea” as far as I have seen. I dream of changing this soon. By this way: thanks a lot. Minden jót (as hungarians say), Alles Gute!, that means: all the best, Andreas