EcoTip: Bicycles: testing the mettle of the pedal

GREAT ARTICLE ON TRANSPORTATION AND BIKES IN THIS WORLD!!
Source: Treehugger.com
Yikes! Bikes and trikes. What’s with Treehugger’s fascination? Probably because the single largest contributor to atmospheric pollution is surprise, surprise: motor vehicles. And according to various estimates 250,000 people die on the road every year, with 10,000,000 more injured. And yet the world has maybe 4 times as many bicycles as cars, (some estimates as high as 2 billion!) with 1 billion persons being classified as utiltarian cyclists. That should speak volumes for itself. Humankind has yet to invent a means of transport that is more earth and people friendly or emission-free as a pushbike. electric bikes are green livingMunch a half decent breakfast and lunch and you can cover maybe 140 km (87 miles) a day. No electricity, oil, gas, hydrogen or batteries required.

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