Wolfshade
09-05-2013, 06:22 AM
As some of you know I do quite a bit of cycling and next Thursday is the "National Cycle to Work Day".
What is it?
As ronseal famously said: "it does exactly what it says on the tin".
The idea is that people are encouraged for just one day to commute to work by bike, trike, unicycle.
What do I have to do?
Nothing, but you could cycle to work and if you wanted to pledge to do so on the website : https://www.cycletoworkday.org/ and be in with the chance to win some "fabulous" prizes.
This day aims to see more than a million people from across the UK, including multiple gold medal winning Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey, taking part in the biggest-ever national 'Cycle to Work Day'. This is the goal of Cyclescheme, the UK’s leading provider of tax-free bikes for work.
Census data shows 760,000 people now cycle to work regularly (an increase of 110,000 from 2001) - Cyclescheme's ambition is to see this number increase even further on Cycle to Work Day and continue to grow throughout 2013 and beyond with an ambition of hitting one million regular cycle commuters by 2021.
Cyclescheme research has shown that over 50% of commuting journeys are less than five miles – this makes most cycle commutes less than 30 minutes – so for most of us cycling is a viable alternative to taking the car, bus or train to work. The NHS says that cycling can burn up to 650 calories an hour too, making cycling a great way to keep fit and get the recommended 150 minutes of exercise each week.
https://www.cycletoworkday.org/files/downloads/downloadable-documents/ctwd-logo.png
What is it?
As ronseal famously said: "it does exactly what it says on the tin".
The idea is that people are encouraged for just one day to commute to work by bike, trike, unicycle.
What do I have to do?
Nothing, but you could cycle to work and if you wanted to pledge to do so on the website : https://www.cycletoworkday.org/ and be in with the chance to win some "fabulous" prizes.
This day aims to see more than a million people from across the UK, including multiple gold medal winning Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey, taking part in the biggest-ever national 'Cycle to Work Day'. This is the goal of Cyclescheme, the UK’s leading provider of tax-free bikes for work.
Census data shows 760,000 people now cycle to work regularly (an increase of 110,000 from 2001) - Cyclescheme's ambition is to see this number increase even further on Cycle to Work Day and continue to grow throughout 2013 and beyond with an ambition of hitting one million regular cycle commuters by 2021.
Cyclescheme research has shown that over 50% of commuting journeys are less than five miles – this makes most cycle commutes less than 30 minutes – so for most of us cycling is a viable alternative to taking the car, bus or train to work. The NHS says that cycling can burn up to 650 calories an hour too, making cycling a great way to keep fit and get the recommended 150 minutes of exercise each week.
https://www.cycletoworkday.org/files/downloads/downloadable-documents/ctwd-logo.png