In the capital of fashion and business, a symbol of modernity and avant-garde, decide to move by bike is a choice in many ways brave and risky.
Some people do it to save, some to relieve the problems of traffic or the inefficiency of public transport, those who try to drop in an ocean, to respect the environment, but all understand from Subit
or who have enormous difficulties and disincentives. Going by bike makes you immediately realize that the road is often dangerous, rough, and threatened to drain holes, always cut the rails of the tram wheels ready to swallow the prey without giving a chance. Even if
stay right on track to avoid the ire of motorists, it incurs a number of dangers: a door that opens suddenly from a parked car, a taxi, after we passed, suddenly decides to stop by the side of the road waiting for a client. Even the tram
truce accord, if a case reaches you started playing invited to move: the problem is that since there is room for both on the road, this means that you have to temporarily stop and climb on the pavement.
the sidewalk. The cyclist, a thousand eyes to avoid any unexpected, overwhelmed by a horde of cars that seem insane, forced against his will to breathe exhaust gases escaping from those who obviously are not so environmentally conscious, sometimes decides to walk some stretches on the sidewalk.
disaster. The idea was just absolutely crazy: there is no room, you are assailed by the cries of the passers-by claiming the 'exclusive right to use that piece of road. If not worse things happen: one morning an old man threatened me with a stick labeling them as rude. (But how, I love the environment that I struggle like a mule every day risking my life to be perceived as rude?!?)
But the journey is just the beginning of the nightmare rider: once arrived safely at their destination there is the parking problem.
Yes, because finding a pole or some other free-hold in the streets of Milan is by no means trivial!
And once parked the bike? It takes back with terror will not find more: who knows someone has decided that he needed it and if it is taken away. And if you do not find more? Well, at this point or are you a daredevil and decide to buy another one, or, even reluctantly, I resigned to take public transport.
But if the cars, trams and buses they want to be alone in the street and pedestrians on the sidewalks only ... where the hell we go cycling?
