Transform the World? Biking!

The bike known throughout history as one of the most influential inventions along with many others offers many beneficial characteristics to not only an individual person, but also to society in general.

Some ways in which a biking is beneficial to person participating in this activity is the use of transportation, recreation, and increased health and fitness. Biking has increased in popularity over the last 10 years greatly due to its fun and healthy fitness and aspects. The easy accessibility unlike things like gyms gives it an intriguing force for good. Unlike some other types of exercising like running and weight lifting, biking provides very little stress and impact on the joints. With many different types and styles of biking including competitive biking, casual road, mountain, and cyclocross almost everyone can insure to find some type of biking that they enjoy that all increase health and fitness. Road biking offers endless joy on a smooth surface that can involve exhilarating high speeds or easy cruising. Then there is mountain biking which can range anywhere from the sloping weaving trails of cross country mountain biking to the trails consisting of large drops, big ramps, high speeds, and rocky terrain known as downhill mountain biking. Along with these are many other types of biking that can bring countless hours and days of fun.

Along with the recreational joys and pleasures that biking brings, biking brings in the whole world environment whether it be the ecosystem and pollution or the physical health of humans. Throughout civilization and industrialization, large amounts of pollution have been formed which causes a problem to entire world. Although this is a very large problem it can be fixed through a series of little changes too our lives including the increasing of biking as transportation. With the increase of biking as a main form of transportation it can decrease the use of vehicles on the road that constantly pollute the air across the entire world. As large cities become more bike friendly, by building more bike trails, bike lanes, and supporting the use of bikes it allows for many more people to bike to work and other events. Along with this environmental gain that a transfer to biking can bring it also reaps the health and exercise benefits that are passed over by people in their everyday lives. So what are you going to do to help this cause in improving the environmental health and your fitness?…..Pretty soon the answer will be biking!

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