RARE KNOWN FACTS OF CYCYLING

Whether you are a runner, walker, footballer or just a sitter there are some rare known facts of

cycling certainly you will enjoy! Here are they

1. The Wooden Bike!

The first made bike was nearly completely made of wood plus numerous thousand duplicates
were made and used. As you can picture its popularity dramatically faded after many accidents
happened and then finally police prohibited its use!

2. Longest Bicycle
Some crazy members of Dutch cycling organization wanted to join Guinness World Records
annual; they built the longest bicycle in the world, which is 35.79 m long as you see in the
picture!

3. The world's most expensive bike

World’s most expensive bike is a "Butterfly Bike" designed by artist Damien Hirst, The bike sold
for $500,000 at Sotherby's.

4. The Most Largest Bike

The largest rideable bicycle has a wheel diameter of 3.3 m, the height is 7.80 meters, and the
width is 3.70 meters. A German Cycler Didi Senft built it.

5. The Slowest Ride

A Japanese cycler Tsugunobu Mitsuishi set the slowest cycling record in 1965 when he stayed
stationary, not moving for 5 hours, 25 minutes.

6. The Fastest Ride

An American Olympic Cyclist and Ironman triathlon challenger John Howard reached the fastest
speed ever recorded on a bicycle, when he reached 245 Km in 1985.
7. Bicycles without Riders
Did you know that a bicycle could stay standing without a cyclist as long as it is moving and its
speed is 13 km or faster?

8. 1 Pedal is 3 Steps
When riding a bicycle, you can travel three times faster than you can walk, for the same amount
of energy. There is no similar or better transportation vehicle. When it is all about consuming
energy!

9. Cool Cyclist
A latest psychological study showed that cyclists are mostly intellectual persons and they are
being described as cools. It is another serious reason to ride a bike!

10. Roads made for Cycling

Paved roads are convenient but it is not for automobiles, Proper reason is bicycles. Cars could
move on cobblestones properly on the other hand bicycles could not. That is the reason why
paved roads are convenient now.

11. Bike Thieves

Bike Thieves are most annoying persons for Cyclers. According to an experiment,
Massachusetts transit police placed cardboard-cutout cops near two bike racks in Cambridge. Bike
theft dropped 67% in a month.

12. Bike Inventions

There are more than 96,000 bicycle-related patents at the European Patent Office.

Including 20 devices such as allowing a cyclist to exercise a dog while riding the bike.

13. 1 Liter Gas = 367 Km

The bicycle is one of the most efficient inventions in the history of humankind. A liter of gasoline
contains about 8,000 calories. If a person could drink gasoline, then a person could ride about 367
km on a liter of gas
14. Freedom Machine

A famous feminist once said that the invention of the modern bicycle “has done more to emancipate
women than anything else in the world” and called it as “freedom machine.”

15. Burns fat while you rest.

This is one of the best benefit for getting in shape. You already burn fat while you ride also
you’ll increase the fat-burning enzymes after a bicycle training

16. Lower stress, Better sleep.

Cycling reduces feelings like depression exhaustion, and anxiety. Just a little bit of regular
cycling improves reaction time, memory and creativity, making you best at work and social life.
Regular exercise and sunlight are both known medicine of insomnia.

17. Look good, Raise Your Mood

Whatever your body type, exercise increases your confidence, your hormonal levels and your
look. Therefore, it makes you better looking. Cycling makes you high and guess what it is still
legal PLUS the joy of wind in your face.

18. These shown are the rare known facts of cycling. As there are many awkward things, also
there can be many benefits of cycling such as shown in presentation.

19. We crawled first then started to walk. For me if there is an evolution. Evolution process
ended with cyclers 

THANK YOU, RIDE SAFELY! :)