The intellectual capacity is a factor for sure, but indeed there is more to life than that. Things like hard work, creativity, social skills, empathy, determination, ability to plan and execute are as much factors as high IQ.

Went to the equivalent of a mensa meeting group a couple of times. The people there were much smarter than me, but they all had their problems and many of them weren't that successful at all despite their obvious intelligence.

With the widespread adoption of the ebike the cycling has gotten another impulse. With the help of the motor larger distances can be covered with ease, instead of people cycling 5-8km to work you now see a lot more people covering something like 10-15km with the bike (I myself do around 16*2 if it's not raining or bitter cold).

The bike saves a ton of emissions, helps in the reduction of traffic jams thus saving a lot of polution and cycling is healthy. But even in the Netherlands the politicians don't always get it, this year the tax rebate for bikes bought for home-work trips has been canceled.. Too expensive, I really can't see how, but hey.