Environment

Cycling not only helps you get fit for life but it helps keep the planet healthy too.

Bikes require much less space than other forms of transport and cycling is the least polluting way of travelling (after walking). Bikes are also perfect for those everyday trips that most of us make – plus you can double park right outside the cinema, shops or gym, and you won’t have to pay a fine. Nearly 60% of all the car journeys we make are under five miles (and more often than not are caught up in traffic too) – just think what a difference it would make if we took out the bike instead. Here’s our run down of the top feel good, environmentally friendly bike facts...

WATT?!

On a bike you use up fewer watts of energy than a car does just powering its lighting system for the same distance.

A weighty issue

On a bicycle you weigh about six times more than your vehicle. In a car your vehicle weighs about twenty times more than you do.

Zero emissions

Bicycles produce no pollution when they are used, and are almost soundless. What’s more, if you cycle a journey of up to three miles rather than drive, you will save 2kg of carbon.

Save on O₂ too

On a bicycle you consume a fiftieth of the oxygen consumed by a motor vehicle, and expel no pollutants.

The most energy efficient machine?

On a bicycle you can travel up to 1037 km on the energy equivalent of a single litre of petrol. Furthermore, to make a bicycle requires the same energy produced by just one average tank of petrol.

Space savers

Ten bikes can be parked in the space of one car.

Good for nature

Dedicated cycle routes are a haven for wildlife and make much safer wildlife corridors than roads.