Pedal Power
My weekly goal is to bike 100km/week (commute to work daily by bicycle - which is 20km/day). My year-end goal is to bike 2000km, though I'd have to bike 20kms every workday between now and December to make it. If we have a late snow, I might be able to do it. I think I stopped bicycling last year in November. We'll see. I have cold-weather bicycle clothing, and that coupled with a good dose of stubborness, I might reach my goal!
I copied the following from a post in the bikes forum. Something interesting to think about, though I can't verify these "facts".
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.
I copied the following from a post in the bikes forum. Something interesting to think about, though I can't verify these "facts".
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.