Superhighways built for bikes, a whopping 30 percent pedal to work and the corner store instead of driving, $110 million invested annually in bike infrastructure and education—they're not only happy in Holland because of the coffeeshops, folks.

Thousands of tourists, like the authors of Bicycling magazine’s glowing June feature, flock to the tiny country for bike tours. This picture, of mid-sized city Groningen, is an inspiration—to begin retrofitting our cities' wide avenues and suburban streets to invite more biking as transportation. Oh, and one more factoid: Even out in Amsterdam’s ‘burbs, 37 percent of all trips are by bike.