Ah no that is a fair point. Cycling speed let's you appreciate things at a different scale. It happened to me many times when living in Wuhan. Stuff that was just "blocks of buildings" on a bus suddenly became such and such shop or specific building. Happened to me in towns I lived in as a driver. Taking the bicycle to go drinking in the town center let me notice the architecture of individual building.

It's a different experience for sure, I find that each mode of moving around has pros and cons :)