" Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
Here you listen the interviews about biking:
Health Benefits
Health professionals recommend at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity each day. This is enough to maintain a good health, even if the exercise is broken up into short ten minute bursts.
Riding to work, school, university or college, or taking your bike on short neighborhood trips is a convenient and practical way to incorporate regular exercise into your busy day.
Regular exercise, such as cycling and walking is important.
Riding to work, school, university or college, or taking your bike on short neighborhood trips is a convenient and practical way to incorporate regular exercise into your busy day.
Regular exercise, such as cycling and walking is important.
Environmental benefits
Bike riding uses minimal fossil fuels and is a pollution-free mode of transport. Bikes reduce the need to build, services and dispose of cars.
Cycling 10 km each way to work would save 1500 kg of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
Cycling 10 km each way to work would save 1500 kg of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
- Bikes use no fuel
- Bicycle takes a lot less energy to make than a car
- Bikes don`t require toxic batteries or motor oil
Economic benefits
- Bicycles cost little to buy or operate, and there is no gas, parking, or insurance to pay for
- Cycling 10 km each way to work each day will save much money per year in transport costs
- Economic growth can result from high density, cycle friendly urban design
- Reduced infrastructure maintenance costs
- cycle parking allows 5 times more retail spend than the same space for car parking
- cycle friendly neighborhoods can have greater retail spend