Bike to Work Day
Bike to the Boot after work on the 16th to celebrate the culmination of Bike to Work Week with your fellow cyclists!
We will be having an afterwork celebration starting at 5 pm at the Boot for everyone who participated. We will have a tasting with Marty Jones, owner of Oskar Blues Brewing Company on hand to pour and discuss he fantastic roster of can beers. Come out, lock your bike to the patio fence, and have a good time!
Bicycles and Clean Air
• Commuting by bicycle produces zero pollution.
• If people rode a bicycle instead of using a motor vehicle for trips of less than two miles, the majority of motor vehicle pollution would be prevented.
• Motor vehicle emissions represent 31% of total carbon dioxide, 81% of carbon monoxide, and 49% of nitrogen oxides released in the U.S.
• Approximately 40% of all trips are less than 2 miles in length – which represents a 10-minute bike ride or a 30-minute walk.
• A short, four-mile round trip by bicycle keeps about 15 pounds of pollutants out of the air we breathe.
Bicycles are Better than Cars
• 100 calories can power a cyclist for three miles.
• 100 calories can power a car 280 feet.
• About 12 bicycles can be parked in the space required for one car.
• Traffic jams in the 29 major cities cost commuters an estimated $24.3 billion annually (and makes them grouchy).
• The number of US bicycle commuters doubled between 1983 and 1990.
• More than half of all Americans live less than 5 miles from where they work.
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