@pony in many countries it is marketed as a "macho" thing especially to young men who then treat the public road as a racetrack, in a way that would often get you arrested if you tried it in a car! the only reason more aren't nicked is not all cops are themselves on bikes and so the bad cyclists are harder to catch!

I own a #ebike which will easily reach 30km/h but am very careful to ride correctly, there is no need for me to run red lights or cut across pavements when I am already fast!

@vfrmedia I get it when cyclists break rules made for cars for their own safety, but there's a limit to this.

We got this nice lights on our street (https://www.google.de/maps/@50.0890508,14.4618564,3a,75y,259.76h,92.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sO31L7IfrrZF_T7hZzhN1SA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en) that only cover the crosswalk. And of course, sometimes there's a driver that doesn't give a shit about the red light (and most of them, of course, don't give a shit about the yellow one either). But when it's a cyclist running the red here at like 40 km/h, that stands out and makes really negative impression. Prick.

@pony it took me barely 0,5 km *travelling* down that road to find this advert.

OK its not a *bad* bike per se and with proper lights/mudguards and rack could be a decent commuter machine, but here is advertised as a "sports" model.

And this is precisely what can the culture of treating the road as your private racetrack when on two wheels to "compete" against all the other road users..

@vfrmedia Usual mode of cycling in Prague is still, to a large degree, a family that just packs their bikes on top of their car and goes somewhere to the countryside, so that's probably the likely target of the ad. Honestly, I'd expect a bike with the high frame (top bar) to be a bad choice anyway?

@pony we get a lot of that here but commuter cycling is also increasing.

in UK it is more common for those of us who identify as males and who are not yet late middle aged to ride a bike with the high frame/top bar, (step throughs are seen as for ladies and seniors) its usually OK as long as you don't have a sudden stop as that can of course be quite painful (and even worse if a gear control wire runs above rather than below the top tube, but few bikes now have such a design flaw!)

@vfrmedia Yeah, I believe that the low frame bikes are often called as "lady bikes" here. Which, well, may carry some stigma for some people, I guess. There was a bikesharing project that has pink-painted bikes expecting they'd be less desirable to steal. Silly stuff.

Still, my personal issue is, of course, living in the 4th floor, having no elevator, no ground level storage space (and no storage space in the flat itself either).