An obituary for the beloved bicycle

A man pushes a bicycle loaded with dry sugar cane sticks to his home in Wath-Orego in Kisumu county for domestic use on March 29,2018.

The number of bicycles per square kilometre can be an easy method of determining the level of development of any region in Kenya. Maybe better than GDP growth rate.

The higher the bicycle density the lower the level of development. To appear learned, the relationship is reciprocal. The argument is that the bicycle is a residue indicator of development, when it was a workhorse and status symbol in the countryside.