What I carried on the bike: A gym bag full of wet clothes, a 4.4lb. bag of dog food, a tin of pinto beans, 3 liters of red wine.
Why you should ride your bike to the store: Well, this is pretty obvious for many reasons, especially if you,re a regular reader of this blog. But I was prompted to include this in tonight’s post when I came across this article on the NPR website. It discusses the positive effects on a person’s health–as studied by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–when a bike was used even for just small jaunts to replace the car. Here’s an excerpt.
They found that if the Midwesterners ran half of their short-distance errands by bike rather than by car, 1,100 deaths would be avoided each year, and $7 billion would be saved in reduced health-care costs. The trips were 2.5 miles one way; less than a 25-minute bike ride, the researchers figure.
Click here to read the full story.
And finally, here’s a few things that I saw today while traveling within my miniscule daily circumference on my bike (and this is still within the same vain that a person sees and experiences so much more of their environment when traveling by bike, click here, here, or here for previous posts on the topic…or just to see more pictures).
Urban Simplicty 