Thoughts on the contagiousness of biking ahead of National Bike Month | BikeShopHub Blog

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“Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things, and we have to remember that if we are to recognize and diagnose epidemic change.”

-Malcolm Gladwell

A couple weeks ago, I had dinner with a woman I hadn’t met before who told me she’d recently started biking to work. My ears perked up at this news as they always tend to whenever bicycling is injected into a conversation. I knew this woman was a lawyer, but when I asked about the specifics of where she worked, we both broke into smiles. Shell, she told me. Yes, that Shell. She went on to explain that the offices of the Dutch-owned company in downtown New Orleans were filled with ardent bike commuters, many of them having moved from bike-happy Holland and having seen no reason to abandon their culturally-prescribed mode of choice upon their arrival in the much less bike-hospitable U.S.

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