Best bike riding city is Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai is listed top in the World’s Best Cities for a Beautiful Bike Ride, according to the research of Money Beach, a United-Kingdom bike insurer.

According to the company, the aim is to provide some outdoor, socially distanced bucket-list inspiration when international travel resumes.

The result was a compilation of uploaded cycling images on Instagram in 120 popular tourist cities worldwide in May. It counted the number of times that hashtags including #(city)bybike, #(city)cycling and #cycle(city) were used. The result was divided by city size to reveal the ratio of images taken versus the scale of each city.

It found that Chiang Mai provides the most picturesque cycling routes, with #chiangmaicycling used over 6,000 times alone. With a thriving cycling culture, many…