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Cycling: Teacher: Cenel Augusto Perez

Cycling is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and now number over one billion worldwide. Cycling provides numerous health and environmental benefits over motor vehicles such as exercise, reduced pollution, and less traffic congestion. However, cycling also has disadvantages like the need for balance, less protection during crashes, and longer travel times in some areas. Certain countries rely heavily on bicycles for transport, like Denmark and the Netherlands.

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Cycling: Teacher: Cenel Augusto Perez

Cycling is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and now number over one billion worldwide. Cycling provides numerous health and environmental benefits over motor vehicles such as exercise, reduced pollution, and less traffic congestion. However, cycling also has disadvantages like the need for balance, less protection during crashes, and longer travel times in some areas. Certain countries rely heavily on bicycles for transport, like Denmark and the Netherlands.

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Cycling

Teacher: Cenel Augusto Perez

Student: Gavril Alexandru Mircea

January 2019
 Cycling, also called biking or bicycling, is the use of
bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport.
People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists",
"bikers", or less commonly, as "bicyclists".
 Apart from two-wheeled bicycles, "cycling" also
includes the riding of unicycles, tricycles, quadracycles.
 Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and now number
approximately one billion worldwide. They are the principal means of
transportation in many parts of the world.

 Bicycles provide numerous benefits in comparison with motor vehicles,


including the sustained physical exercise involved in cycling, easier
parking, increased maneuverability, and access to roads, bike paths
and rural trails. Cycling also offers a reduced consumption of fossil
fuels, less air or noise pollution, and much reduced traffic congestion.
These lead to less financial cost to the user as well as to society
at large (negligible damage to roads, less road area required).
 Among the disadvantages of cycling are the requirement of bicycles
(excepting tricycles or quadracycles) to be balanced by the rider in
order to remain upright, the reduced protection in crashes in
comparison to motor vehicles, often longer travel time (except in
densely populated areas), vulnerability to weather conditions,
difficulty in transporting passengers, and the fact that a basic level of
fitness is required for cycling moderate to long distances.
 Certain countries rely heavily on bicycles and their culture has
developed around the bicycle as a primary form of transport. In
Europe, Denmark and the Netherlands have the most bicycles and
most often use bicycles for everyday transport.

The biggest bike parking station


in Netherlands
 Pierre Michaux may have become the inventor of the bicycle when he
added pedals to a draisine to form a velocipede, the forerunner of the
modern bicycle. He started building bicycles with pedals in the early
1860s. However historic sources reveal other possible claimants such as
his son Ernest Michaux and Pierre Lallement.
There are multiple types of
competions and bike races which can
take place indoor or outdoor such as:

Velodrome
Montain biking
Road biking
My passion
Road biking is my passion. I like
a lot to travel by bycicle because
I see my bike as an instrument
which helps me improve my
mind and my body, meet new
people, and discover new
places. Until now I visited a lot of
beautiful cities like Piatra Neamt,
Suceava, Bacau, Focsani,
Ungheni, Chisinau, Balti.
In Iasi you can find out more about
bike events schedule on the next
facebook pages:
…and I also invite you all to participate at
the ,,Green Mass” (Masa Verde) which take
place on every last Friday of every month at
16:00 in Copou. The ,,entry” is free but the
joy is needed.
Thank you!

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