Pedal power
- A cyclist can travel 1,037km (644 miles) on the energy equivalent of one litre of petrol
- Regular cycling can make you as fit as someone who is ten years younger
- A cyclist consumes 1/50th of the oxygen of a car making the same journey
- A twice daily half-hour commute will, over a year, consume the energy equivalent of 24lb of fat
- In 1949, 34 per cent of all mechanised journeys were made by bicycle. Fifty years later that figure had fallen to 2 per cent
- The rate of serious heart disease for civil servants who cycle 20 miles or more a week is 50 per cent lower than for their sedentary colleagues
2 comments:
Did you hear about the hit and run guy near lake Calhoun? Very sad.
I did. Very sad - and the hit and run person is a serious wank, to put it as mildly as possible.
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