The Example Comes From Above

I'll be more impressed if no one can enter unless on an adorable bicycle. 😄

You are being too demanding now Joan, I mean, he is the prime minister, so he's giving a great example. 😉

I thought that was normal over there. I probably watch too much tv.

Cycling is normal. The leader of the government riding to work on one, unescorted by a [censored] of security, not so much. Maybe in a place like Holland, yeah, but you'd never see Merkel or Ollande doing it in Germany or Franco.

Putin? He'd ride to work on a Siberian tiger. Bareback.

That is so cool! What a great way to encourage reducing traffic, emissions, and promoting physical fitness. Big thumbs up from me

DancingLady said:

That is so cool! What a great way to encourage reducing traffic, emissions, and promoting physical fitness.

and smegma!

That's awesome, so much respect to this man.

So true, even if it's normal to ride the bike, the prime minister doing it alone tells a lot about the nature of the country.

The British Prime Minister

This is awesome, you will never see something like this where I am from.

katherine25 said:

This is awesome, you will never see something like this where I am from.

Same here, security is too much of an issue, understandably though. I would not expect our leaders to put themselves in what would be a risky situation here.

limerickman said:

The British Prime Minister

Not bad, giving the example as well. In many countries the Prime ministers are just too lazy to ride the bike, a bad example really.

Yes, I have tremendous respect for the Dutch government. They are a progressive lot that know how to run an advanced economy, while giving a good example by some of their MPs by riding to parliament on a bicycle. Cycling has always been popular in the Netherlands, but this will only popularize bike riding further.

mpre53 said:

Cycling is normal. The leader of the government riding to work on one, unescorted by a [censored] of security, not so much. Maybe in a place like Holland, yeah, but you'd never see Merkel or Ollande doing it in Germany or Franco.

Putin? He'd ride to work on a Siberian tiger. Bareback.

Every once in a while you have heads of state promoting themselves this way, I doubt that this is normal. After all they are at risk like any other leader.