Tjin,

For many reasons, your country is much more bike-friendly than North America, of course! Good luck with your drivers test.

Speed bumps - oh, yeah, I remember those in odd places around here - not very noticable when I'm driving "Moby Ford" (White F-250 Superduty). In my wife's car, OTOH...

Our gasoline prices are still comparitively low, but for those of us in North America who can afford the luxury of biking instead of driving, it's not an insignificant savings. For a lot of reasons (and only slightly because of commuting costs), I'm one of those folks over here who would like to arrest and then reverse the insane urban sprawl that has been going on since post WWII.

But that's another topic, and a pretty darned complicated one at that... perhaps over a beer if we should meet someday. Again, I wish you good luck with your driver's test.

Regards,

Tom