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@Oliver Schick
A lot of negative economic effects would follow a ban on bikes. However, they would be proportional to the percentage of cycling as a modal share of total traffic. The effect would be much more serious in a country with more cycling.
In Britain, the economic problems caused by excessive motor traffic (that damage the economy) would only continue. People would be less healthy, there'd be higher health costs, and productivity would certainly go down.
A ban on cars would obviously not be a good idea, but a very strong reduction in motor traffic would only be a good thing. Remember that motor traffic congestion costs the British taxpayer a bomb every year. Here's some research if you're interested:
http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/1259/1/2004_25.pdf
(From 2004, there's something more up-to-date but couldn't find that just now.)