Cycling

Amazing Facts

On a bike you can travel four times faster than you can walk, using a fifth of the energy
On a bike you travel faster, friendlier and more freely than any other vehicle in city traffic
On a bike you are over 15 times as efficient as a horse rider, in terms of energy consumed for each kilometre travelled, and you can travel faster and further.
On a bike you can travel up to 1037 kilometres on the energy equivalent of a litre of petrol.
On a bike you protect yourself against heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity and stress.
On a bike you can have your cake and eat it. A moderate hour of cycling will burn 8 calories a minute, or the equivalent of 11kg of fat in a year.
On a bike you use up fewer watts of energy than a car uses simply to power its lighting system.
On a bike you are, in terms of energy consumed per kilometre travelled, the most efficient of all moving animals and machines.
On a bike you weight about seven times more than your carriage. In a car your carriage weights around thirty times more than you do, and can often go no faster.
On a bike you are a constant energy fuel converter which improves its own strength and efficiency, and even its working life, the more it is used.
On a bike you consume a fiftieth of the oxygen consumed by a motor vehicle, and expel no pollutants.