biking

The fact that they live within biking distance of where they want to go has nothing to do with it....

Copenhagen is a completely flat city which also encourages biking, but yeah, the car tax is probably the biggest reason.

The Quarter, Marigny, Bywater, and Treme can have plenty of character without the risk of getting mugged biking home from work.

Cities were built around different modes of transportation (walking, biking, driving, trains) whereas suburbs were built up entirely around the automobile.

I feel like Fitbit is a better alternative here for daily activity monitoring, and specialty watches for running/biking/etc.

There could be a lake for swimming in biking distance (or use local transport).

First of all, biking is the only reasonable way to commute in Copenhagen.

The mtn biking trails start at the end of my street and I can bike to town on them.

You should also try and going out for like walking, biking, or whatever.

I don't get that biking (which I love) so I don't do it as much as crossfit.

Exercise: make it part of your commute, by biking or walking to work.

However, biking in the rainy, cold, northern Europe is anything but glorious.

Cool!" It just needs to make people feel good about biking, so they're more likely to do it in the future.

Unfortunately both biking and swimming seem to be "privileged" activities in USA.

Biking to work in anything below 0°C isn't what I'd call safe or comfortable.

Biking in northern Europe is OK -- if the roads are ploughed, you have the right clothes and winter tyres (2 * 60 Euro for my bike, shudder.