In Ireland this roughly Ties in with your View of Bicycle use in the Netherlands. We were a Bicycling Country way back before we discovered the Car Pre 1965 then most People starting Buying Cars and only the few Diehards like myself were left Cycling because we enjoyed it. This situation continued up to 1995 and then more People started Cycling again because they wanted to get Fit and also save on Petrol. Then the Recession began to Bite and all of a sudden more People are taking to the Bik