Coming from the political context of why the counters are in place, we see that the bike counters are just one part of a huge set of measurements taken to reach climate neutrality in Hessen. Political decision making processes also take long journeys with many turning points until something like the bike counters is actually installed. From there, a small data journey starts that brings particular information back into bigger processes, like data models, where they seem to get invisible among many other types of data.