- How to Not Get Hit by Cars
Avoid busy streets.
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they start cycling is to take the exact same routes they used when they were driving. It's usually better to take the streets with fewer and slower cars. Sure, cyclists have a right to the road, but that's ...
- Smart Tips for Safe Cycling
Cycling is a wonderful activity for fitness and fun, but novice cyclists need to be aware of ways they can reduce strain, injury and infection.
Wearing a bicycle helmet is an obvious precaution. But many beginning riders aren't aware of the importance of proper bike fit. For exa ...
- Healthy living - Cycling
A staggering 70 per cent of all car trips are less than five miles; the ideal distance for a quick spin on the bike. Perhaps we could hope to match the example of some towns in Holland and Denmark, where nearly half of all journeys are made by bicycle. A word of praise here, too, for the peopl ...
- Cycling and health
Getting on your bike regularly not only gets you where you want to go faster than a car, it protects you against a wide range of ill health, and also makes you feel better.
Cycling is good for your heart and health
Everyday cycling, where the exercise leaves you breat ...
- Leisure Cycling: Get on Your Bike!
Thousands of people have realised that using their bicycles to make journeys can help them to lose weight without dieting, save money, and enjoy a longer, healthier life. In addition, you could help to make Scotland a better place to live.
New to Cycling?
If you are new to < ...
