SOme cyclists are green zealots. Others are risk takers who prefer to be fit. It seems this chap is one of the latter (you have to have a certain enjoyment of danger to cycle in Auckland). He also has a neat punishment for nongs who don’t see him.
That said, I don’t bike _because_ it’s good for the environment. I’m suspicious that the extra showers and increased carbo-intake has a low carbon footprint.
I bike because, well, I like biking. And in Auckland there’s the added thrill of the danger. You aquire some interesting scar tissue…
Albeit I am of the firm belief that young men driving fast cars playing tag with a cyclist, should be dragged up the length of Queen Street by their goolies.
Real men shoot, run, fish, hunt, drive and cycle because they think it is fun. Not to “save” a planet that is bigger than any of us.