Bicycles and Cycling
Tips and safety
A properly fitted quality helmet
Water and sunglasses for eye protection
Tire levers to aid in tire removal
A bicycle multi-tool with a chain tool
Types of bicycles
Mountain Bike
Hybrid/Comfort Bike
Road Bike
Triathlon/Time Trial Bike
Health benefits
Cycling reduces anxiety and depression
Cycling improves your posture and increase muscle strength.
Your heart, blood vessels and lungs all get a workout
Did you know
The first verifiable claim for a practically used bicycle belongs to German Baron Karl von Drais, a civil servant to the Grand Duke of Baden in Germany. Drais invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine") in 1817, that was called Draisine (English) or draisienne (French) by the press.
Over 100 million bicycles are manufactured each year
Seven out of eight people in Netherlands that is older than 15 year old has a bicycle
Bicycles save over 238 million gallons of gas every year
World Bicycle Day
3 June
Competitions
Le Tour de France
Giro d'Italia
La Vuelta EspaƱa
Environmental benefits
Bike riding uses minimal fossil fuels and is a pollution-free mode of transport
Bikes reduce the need to build, service and dispose of cars
Cycling 10 km each way to work would save 1500 kg of greenhouse gas emissions each year