[hardwaresofton]

Seems like there are lots of huge implicit qualifiers for this advice (I disagree with it pretty much completely, but this stuck out to me): The writer is in a country with one of the best road systems around, in a college town, in a town with lots of people that bike.

This is terrible terrible advice for any place that doesn't fit that criteria, and might as well be bad advice in the town that DOES fit this criteria.