When I first came to Cambridge, I was told that it was quite flat around. It isn't just quite flat, it is really flat. There are rumors that floating around my school that tell you that you could walk from Cambridge all the way to Ely, a town about 5 miles away, and the ground level would not change by more than 10 meters. And in Cambridge's case, it attract cyclists like the Eiffel tower attracts tourists! My father was visiting the Cambridge railway station once, and he was going to take a look around the area. So he looked for a place to lock his bike. He went around the back of the building and guess what he saw. There was a huge amount of bikes, literally a sea of bikes, all of them belonging to people who were taking the train somewhere. It was only about half the size of a soccer field, but there were more bikes in it than fans at your average soccer game. I can't even imagine what the number of bikes per person rate is in Cambridge. Or how anyone could find their bike in that bicycle parking lot, for that manner. Cambridge was built for bikes.
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