I love to ride my bicycle

As mentioned before - I really like riding my bike. And now with my cowboy bike - bicycling is even more fun. My Cowboy bike is so cool that people literally stop me on the street to tell me how cool my bike is... The other day a little boy yelled at me while a drove by; "Wow!!! COOL Bike!!!" - that boy made my day! The cowboy bike is so comfy riding that it doesn't even feel like you are doing any work to get anywhere.

My Cowboy Bike, originally uploaded by MivPiv.

I have this really neat basket for my bike... Now for Danish people this is not big news... I hardly know anybody in Denmark who don't have a basket for their bikes. Most of us (at least the people living in Copenhagen) ride a bike to school, work or when we go shopping... There are many reasons for this... First of all it s most often faster to go on a bike within Copenhagen - if you go less then 8-10km...It is also cheaper (Duh!) and as a bonus it is free daily exercise. It might also have something to do with the 180 per cent car registration tax levied on new vehicles, which along with a 25 per cent Value Added Tax has reduced traffic significantly. The car tax, introduced in the 1970s, deliberately made it difficult and expensive to own a car. That it has survived many changes in government testifies to the public support it enjoys. ...sorry - I got side tracked there... Back to the basket... I am astonished what a novelty it is to Americans that you can actually put a basket on your bike - not to look cute, transport a puppy or because you want to look like someone named Heidi... But because your bike is like your car and the basket is like your trunk... I ENJOY riding my bike and the weather is SO beautiful now that it is a JOY - and I really hope more people here will start doing the same and that they will start to prioritize bicyclists in the traffic as we do in Copenhagen. So I beg you Obama give the Americans bicycle lanes and priority in traffic lights!