You could also ask: Can bicycle riding be explained? What factors lead to bike riding? Proximity, physical attraction, happenstance, personality, wealth, health, values, shared experiences, individual preferences?
You can likely run correlations with those factors but they are not going to explain you much about the nature of bike riding.
Reading Mate by Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller might provide you with a better perspective on the subject.
You could also ask: Can bicycle riding be explained? What factors lead to bike riding? Proximity, physical attraction, happenstance, personality, wealth, health, values, shared experiences, individual preferences?
You can likely run correlations with those factors but they are not going to explain you much about the nature of bike riding.
Reading Mate by Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller might provide you with a better perspective on the subject.