Some lovely facts on the benefits of cycling from a top cycle coach.
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- Those cycle to work are 40% less likely to die to prematurely regardless of how much activity they got outside of commuting.http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=485349
- Independent of leisure time physical activity, commuting physical activity is associated with the lower cardiovascular risk profile
- Reducing emissions to active transport even compare to your three years reduces to mature deaths from 541 to 17 per million.
- Driving an hour each day corresponds to a 6% increase in the likely good of being obese.
- A person driving a car breathe 60% more carbon monoxide in their car than a cyclist in traffic.
- 50% of trips by car of 3 miles or less.
- 25% of driving time is spent on 14 mile average US commute.
- Oregon residents save more than 2 billion dollars per year because they ride more.
- The annual cost of being obese is $5000 for women and $3000 for men.
- Every pound increase in the average weight of the American car means it increases fuel consumption by 40 million gallons.
- And now I can spend 18% of their income on Transportation. The annual cost of a car is $8000.
- Annual cost of a bike is $300.
"May be prevention is cheaper than chronic illness"
Nice Brompton demo at the end. Nice to see a high end cyclist using one.
( by the way 14 miles is about 50 minutes by bike OR the 9 minutes over the average commute time of 41 minutes.
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