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| Bike riding and activism have gone together from the start |
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Compared to today’s favored road bike jerseys personal transportation (cars), bicycles:
Require 100% less gas than a petroleum-powered vehicle
Kill about 40,000 fewer people in the U.S. each year
Cost 0.75% as much as a car on average ($500 vs. $67,000)
Provide healthy exercise
Can be stored or parked in a hallway, bike locker, or rack — no parking spot needed
Are more fun per mile.
Mobility for the masses
Bike riding and activism have gone together from the start. People on bikes lobbied for the first paved roads in the U.S. years before those roads became dominated by automobiles.
In the late 1800s, feminists short sleeve cycling jerseys saw bicycling as a means for women to gain autonomy. Rather than needing to be taken places by a man, a woman on a bike could go wherever she wanted under her own power.
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| Beitrag vom 10.05.2023 - 07:50 |
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