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by iggldiggl 1047 days ago
> Cycling commuting distances/speeds, especially European-style, only counts as exercise for very sedentary people.

Which I'd wager includes a sizeable fraction of the population. I also remember seeing a study in Germany some years ago where they found that exclusive car commuters had the highest average BMI and bike commuters the lowest. Granted, it was not a massive (ahem) difference, but definitively a few kilos…