'Space for cycling' protest ride 2nd September

... Once bikes have an infrastructure, less cars and public transport will be used prompting more money being spent on bike infrastructure and the cycle will continue. ...

Right now, we have an almost negligible amount of infrastructure that is up to Dutch standards, yet cycling is growing and the feedback loop of growing numbers gaining influence and supporting further growth is already operating. Other factors are supporting this growth. I guessed at some a few pages back. Cycle training might be a small contributor (anyone got numbers?) but it is an important one because the approach it teaches spreads beyond those taught, and it's officialness helps legitimise the presence of cyclists on the roads in the minds of everyone who is aware of it.

And as cycling grows it will gain the political power to demand more infrastructural support, both friendlier roads and segregated routes for those who can't or won't use the roads.

The kerb nerds seem to have an alternative plan. You imagine you can achieve sweeping infrastructure changes for the benefit of hordes of future cyclists who don't even know they're cyclists yet, let alone have a political voice. Meanwhile telling lots of people who do cycle that they're doing it wrong and should put their interests behind those of the as-yet unconscious community you claim to be speaking for. All you have to do is achieve sufficient ideological purity in your faction of a fraction of a minority and the infrastructure fairy with grant all your wishes...

(And ain't it handy how these future hordes don't yet have a voice to inconveniently dispute your assessment of their best interests?)

If you believe in segregated cycle paths, campaign positively to get good ones built. If they really are good, then both existing and new cyclists will like them and use them and it will be seen that they are good and they will spread.

... We have a tiny percentage of the UK population riding bikes. I would like to see every person in the UK own and ride a bike(not for every journey, but more often than now). This will only happen when the infra supports this.

Your're right that it's necessary that the infrastructure support everyone cycling before everyone will cycle, but that's neither sufficient nor relevant to where we are now. Choosing to cycle depends on more than just infrastructure, and right now we just need more cycling of all kinds.