Cycling, it relates to society ... the car is!

[Christophe]

Another subject that will please dedeleco and which brings us closer to a more econological society!

In Copenhagen, a kilometer by bike saves the company 1,22 crowns (16 cents). Conversely, a kilometer traveled by car made him lose 0,69 crown (9 cents). This is the conclusion of a study carried out by the city of Copenhagen and spotted by the American magazine Grist. But how did the city come to such a conclusion? By combining a number of factors such as "transport costs, safety, comfort, image, travel times and health" ... As "the health benefit of the use of bicycles by the inhabitants of Copenhagen amounts to 5,51 crowns (74 euro cents) per kilometer, the annual profit is roughly 2 billion (269 million euros) crowns ”underlines the report. A nice sum.

Source: http://www.terraeco.net/Un-kilometre-a- ... 42952.html

Article on Grist: http://grist.org/list/one-mile-on-a-bik ... a-20-loss/

The study: https://www.econologie.info/share/partag ... QJfCPc.pdf

Topic in the same genre and closer to us: https://www.econologie.com/forums/faire-plus ... 10113.html

[gegyx]

Reimbursed soon by the Social Security?

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/sport/20 ... ments.html

The news went almost unnoticed. However, it announces a future revolution in the world of medicine. "The doctor's daily" informs us that from next September, the city of Strasbourg will allow some fifty volunteer doctors to prescribe bicycles rather than drugs to their patients.

[Christophe]

Ah great, it's in Strasbourg too! dede will gloat !! I checked the date it's not an April Fool!

For the record that some people already know: 12 years ago, school year 2000/2001, last year of engineering, I proposed to the CUS (Urban Community of Strasbourg) the possibility of paying the km traveled at bike rather than car (it was part of this project: https://www.econologie.com/les-transport ... es-27.html ) ... I was sent to the roses ...

I'm glad to see that mentalities have changed ... but it will have taken time ...

Regarding reimbursement: why not prescribe to use personal bikes too? Question of self motivation I presume?

[Former Oceano]

It is also necessary to put the special issue of GM reimbursable by the social security.
With 280 models of motorcycles, I had the banana by reading it in the TGV yesterday on the way home from work (day at the DG in Pars) and I lent it to a guardian biker friend where I work and he had he also bananas all day and surely the whole weekend I left him for the 3 days
Cycling is all good: physical activity, less pollution, stress removed. And somewhere it saves time in addition to saving money. Because no need to go to a gym to do 2 or 3 hours of sport in the week. There we travel and in addition we do our sport. So we even gain in time.

[elephant]

However, I read on one of the forums du "Soir" (one of the big Belgian newspapers) a speaker who wrote in a forum on bike flights, frequent in Brussels, about this:

"The state will do nothing. Indeed, riding a bicycle is an incivism that does not bring anything back to the state, neither taxes, nor fuel, nor wages in public transport. On the other hand a stolen bicycle will bring back at least the VAT on the new purchase. "

[gegyx]

Ouch! The sovereign remedy is spoiled ...

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/sport/20 ... emmes.html

[Rabbit]

And then, on a racing bike without a mudguard, splashing water can cause some gynecological damage with a hole saddle

Source

[Christophe]

Ouch! The sovereign remedy is spoiled ...

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/sport/20 ... emmes.html

Definitely it is really the month of April with the fish posted after the 1 ...

I'm not a conservative Puritan, far from it, but I find the title particularly rude! Ok for a blog, a forum, a fish but not for a journalistic article!

Bicycle saddles make women (also) go wild

In terms of content, here's what to remember:

Fewer genital sensations in women on bikes

This Monday April 2, the "New York Times" was interested in the fate of women cyclists. The fate of their sex had, according to the article, until then not been studied so closely by scientists.

Admittedly, a study published in 2006 by Yale researchers had shown that women cyclists had less genital sensations than women runners, but no other clearly measured the mechanism of this loss of sensations.

This time, researchers from several American universities joined forces to stick to it and 48 women participated in the study.

All of them were a bit of bike junkies: each of them pedaled at least fifteen kilometers a day, but most of them even exceeded this quota.

Since we deviate on the subject, we might as well deviate: https://www.econologie.com/forums/l-orgasme- ... 11303.html

ps: what is a hole saddle? How does that change the problem?

[moinsdewatt]

A car blocks the cycle path, he lifts it with his bare hands

This strong Brazilian impressed passers-by by clearing the cycle path by moving a car at arm's length.

http://video.lefigaro.fr/figaro/video/u ... 166489001/ (after the ad)

[I Citro]

Yes, but it is a Fiat Panda, a light model, now rare in France. If I was strong and crazy enough (at the risk of screwing up my back) to do the same, I would often have half a dozen cars to move every day for my 34km (2x17km) of bike trips.