Bike Facts

I thought these were interesting (via the Bozeman Bike Kitchen):

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

Source: Somerset County Council