Re:However.
When I need to go to town, I take my bike and in a few minutes I'm where I need to be.
With a car, it takes forever in the traffic jams (plus the pollution, the wasted gas and temper).
With the bike, you also exercize, visit more unknown corners of your own city.
It's sometimes dangerous as many streets don't have bicycle paths (many do and the width left for cars has shrank). Of course, Antwerp, and Flanders for that matter, are mainly flat.
Raoul