Aside from the obvious health benefits, cycling to and from work will transform your wallet, your mood, your view on the city and play a huge part in reducing carbon emissions. If you still need convincing about why commuting by bike is a great idea, then read on!
- Regular cyclists enjoy a fitness level equal to that of a person ten years younger.
- Cycling at least twenty miles a week can reduce your risk of heart disease by 50%.
- Cycling to work stimulates serotonin and oxytocin making you more alert upon arrival.
- Regular cycling can reduce your all-cause mortality rate by up to 36%.
- Fit employees commit 27% fewer errors on tasks involving concentration and short-term memory than unfit colleagues.
- Cyclists have significantly fewer sick days off work compared with non-cycling colleagues.
- There’s a 12.5% difference in productivity between exercising and non-exercising employees.
- It vastly reduces commuter stress and many of the related heart / aging / anxiety issues.
- Bicycles require no road tax, no MOT, no insurance, no licensing, no breakdown recovery services, and above all no fuel bills (unless you count confectionery bars!).
- A good bicycle needs at most about £50-worth of maintenance a year - less if you do a bit yourself.
How much does your car need?
- Bicycle commuting is shown to be 40 times less expensive than average car travel.
- A good bicycle will last for years, if not decades. How long did your previous car last?
- A bicycle can be parked just about anywhere, so no more expensive car park bills.
- 2kg of carbon are saved for every short journey made by bike instead of car.
- Twenty bicycles can be parked in the same space taken up by one car.
- Around 70% of company’s carbon footprint (Scope 3) comes from the journeys its employees make to facilitate business. Cycling can help reduce this impact.
- Cycling uses 0.03 mega joules of energy per km – 70 times more energy-efficient than the average car.
- If all commutes in England under five miles were completed by bike instead of car it would save enough CO2 to heat 17,000 houses per week.
- No traffic jams. No parking spaces. No Roadworks. No strikes. The same daily journey, the same daily problems, the same anxiety. Commuting by bike is the polar opposite.
- Cycling releases endorphins causing a sense of well-being, pain relief and a reduction in stress.
- Instead of sitting in traffic or being squashed into an overcrowded train, imagine if your journey always took the same amount of time and could take you down a river path or through a park!
- Frsh air, sunshine and exercise are all standard elements of any healthy lifestyle.
