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1.3 million more bikes bought than cars registered in UK in 2011.


Only 4 countries in Europe buck the trend, Belgium, Ireland, Spain & Italy.


More reason to look at the relative allocation of space to different road users.


http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/sep/17/recession-transport-bike-sales-overtake-cars



Edited for way too many typos resulting from typing on a stupid phone without my glasses!

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"The data doesn't take into account second-hand car sales, only new vehicle registrations but the bike data also only refers to sales of new products."


And I wonder if it includes little kids' bikes which are wheeled around the garden and the park.


In any case, I don't disagree with the spirit of your conclusion, I'm just not sure these figures are a helpful part of the argument.

Could be market saturation or increase in public transport use.


I think the car v bike sales is still interesting. There has been some data that shows cyclists and motorists are roughly even in numbers now, I think. Can't remember exactly. Might look for the data later.


I think the inequitable sharing of our public space, with motorists being given a disproportionately high amount of available space is the main issue that needs to be addressed


The statics are interesting, but clearly don't show the whole picture.

Yes, I think that's pretty impressive.


I think the fact that sales of each is going down even though the comparative gap is widening isn't a car v bike thing, but reflects something else which was not accounted for in this study.


Not relevant really in this debate though.

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