I've been reading a bit about the increased number of people cycling while the world is in lockdown but last week there were a few articles about the bicycle numbers in Melbourne that I was a little dubious about. So I did what no sane person does, I dived into the data... The article ( Car parks out, footpaths and cycling lanes in as city prepares for post-COVID commuters ) in The Age on 7th May 2020 cited cycling growth figures of 138% to 778% which seemed a little high to be believable. The figures apparently came from an article and report by the Bicycle Network detailing changes in cycling activity based on surveys they had conducted. Now firstly, I couldn't find matching figures in the report for all the sites listed in The Age article, but more importantly I had a few issues with the data being used for this kind of analysis. Bicycle network published the data from 4 surveys, one on Sunday 10th of November 2019 and three in April 2020 on a Wednesday, a