Danes make bikes work; so can we.

Of course, once you get bikes on the street, you have to put them somewhere. Bicycles parked around the central train station in Copenhagen. (Photo by Neil Steinberg)

Biking in Amsterdam is fun if you pay attention and follow the rules. (Photo by Edie Steinberg)

I first rode a bicycle in downtown Chicago the summer of 2000. We were about to move from East Lakeview to Northbrook, and I figured this was my chance to bike to work. I took the lakefront bike path to Grand Avenue, then cut over to the paper, then on Wabash.