[KirinDave]

An environment where capricious and terrible drivers texting surreptitiously in gigantic body crushers are not prolific.

LA has a terrible bike culture. I learned to hate biking down there, and it's only now up in SF that I've started repairing that.

[smokey_the_bear]

I used to bike a lot in SF. Then I realized that in less than a year I had a roommate shatter an ankle on market street and need surgery, a friend get hit by a bus and had to wear a neckbrace for months, another friend shattered a shoulder and also needed surgery, another got doored and had back problems, and I also got doored, but was fine. Though my bike was messed up. Great bike culture, but not very safe.

[KirinDave]

At least people drive smaller cars in SF. ;)

[tokenadult]

Californians in general drive both better (more safely) and more courteously than drivers in Minnesota, but even with the bad weather here, some Minnesotans bike. I feel much better when my wife is on a designated bike trail than along a roadway that has car traffic.