Every day is really Bike to Work Day at Specialized Bicycles,
but the entire month of May is declared National Bike Month by the
League of American Bicyclists. Bike Week is set for May 12-16.
Every day is really Bike to Work Day at Specialized Bicycles, but the entire month of May is declared National Bike Month by the League of American Bicyclists. Bike Week is set for May 12-16.
Specialized officially celebrates Bike to Work Day at Specialized on Thursday, May 15.
Drive less (when you can), ride more, and join us for Bike to Work Day. Saddle-up! One less car on the road results in cleaner air for everyone to breathe AND less traffic and congestion.
For more information on the League of American Bicyclists and National Bike Month, check out www.bikeleague.org.
Need more motivation? Ten Reasons Why You Should Bike To Work:
• Only 1.67 percent of Americans commute by bicycle. In Japan, 15 percent commute by bike.
• About 12 bikes can be parked in the space required for one automobile. More than half of all American’s live less than 5 miles from where they work, according to Bicycling Magazine.
• 100 bikes can be built for the same energy and resources it takes to build one sub-compact automobile.
• The average number of barrels of oil consumed daily in the United States is 17 million.
• Driving consumes 43 percent of those barrels of oil.
• Commuting by bicycle produces essentially zero pollution.
• The number of bicycle commuters doubled between 1983 and 1990, according to the Bicycle Institute of America.
In China, bicycles outnumber cars 250 to 1. 61 percent of adults in the US are overweight. Don’t be one of them
