Friday, May 3, 2024
National Ride a Bike Day
National Ride A Bike Day is the first Sunday in May and this year, that falls on May 5 – this Sunday!
Usually, most people learn how to ride a bike by the time they start school, and it brings with it their first taste of freedom of sorts. They don’t necessarily have to be carried by a parent or have their hand held. As they grow older, they learn valuable lessons as their freedom grows along with them. Older kids can ride their bike to school, the library or to a friend’s house.
As adults, it can be easy to forget how much fun bikes were in our youth. But there are always opportunities to choose bicycling over cars, it may just be a matter of finding them. So on this National Ride A Bike Day, consider mounting your wheels if you haven’t in a while and maybe choose a two-wheeler over your motor vehicle if your next trip or errand isn’t far. And usually, it’s not: Almost half of motor vehicle tripes in the United States are 3 miles or less. The average bicycle trip is 2.4 miles. That’s a lot of carbon emissions, pollution, and traffic that you’d save, if you even replace one car trip a day.