Cycle2work community
This brings news and information on commuting, keeping fit, where you can cycle, pro-cycling, our latest bike reviews and the latest cycling news.
Our aim is simple: to promote cycling to work to everyone and encourage a modal shift in transport.
Cycling facts!
- Cycling is the least polluting way of travelling after walking
- Ten bikes can be parked in the space of one car
- You can get a bike through the Halfords cycle2work scheme for as little as £5 per month
- Cycling burns 600 calories an hour
- On a bike you can travel 3 times faster than you can walk, for the same amount of energy
- By cycling you can travel over a 1000 kilometres on the energy equivalent of a single litre of petrol
- Cyclist can be as fit as an average person ten years younger.
- Whilst cycling you consume a fiftieth of the oxygen consumed by a motor vehicle, and expel no pollutants
