How Many of these Fun Bike Facts Do You Already Know?
Jun 1st 2018
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1. The first bicycles were called "velocipedes", which means "a human powered land vehicle with at least one wheel". "Bicycles", the modern name, was coined in the 1860's, and comes from the French word "bicyclette". source
By F. A. Brockhaus - Downloaded 2009-01-17 from F.A. Brockhaus, Ed. (1887) Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon, 13th Ed., Vol.16, F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, Germany, facing p.142 from Google Books, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6...
2. Over 100 million bicycles are manufactured each year. source
3. Bicycles are the most efficient mode of transportation- more than cars, trains, motorcycles, airplanes and WALKING. Let that sink in...cycling is up to 5x more energy efficient than walking. source
4. Bicycles are the reason we have paved roads. source
5. UPS was founded by two teenagers with a bike and a $100 loan. source
6. Cities in the Netherlands are created to accommodate bicycles rather than cars. 58% of people living in Amsterdam cycle daily. source
7. The Race Across America race is 30% longer than the Tour de France and must be completed in half the time. source
8. Over 55 million bicycles were sold in one year. Where? China. When? 2015. source
9. Japan used 50,000 bicycle infantry to invade Malaysia. source
10. The longest bicycle to hold a world record is 41.42 m (135 ft 10.7 in) long. The bike was ridden in Adelaide, Australia, on 17 January 2015 for 100 meters, with no stabilisers to prove that it was "rideable". source
