1. Did you know….
The longest tandem bike ever built had 35 seats and was about 67 feet long!

2. Did you know….
In the early 1900s, 6-day long bicycle races were quite popular. The winner would be whoever rode the greatest distance in the 6days. They would get extremely little sleep and hallucinate on the track.

3. #KCV415H, Did you know….
Paved roads became mainstream not because of automobiles, but because of bicycles. While cars could go across cobblestones fairly well, bicycles could not. 

4. Did you know….
The 1913 Tour de France rules forbade outside assistance when riders’ bicycles broke.
At one point, the race leader’s front fork broke and he trekked 10km to a forge where he repaired it himself, as he happened to also be a skilled mechanic.
He was penalized 10 min because a child worked the bellows. 

5. Did you know….
Despite the fact that speed limits do not apply to bicycles in UK, you can be prosecuted simply for cycling too fast, under the charge of ‘cycling furiously.’

6. Did you know….
UPS was founded by two teenagers with one bicycle and $100 Borrowed from a friend.

7. Did you know….
The Japanese invaded most of Malaysia while riding their bicycles during WW2. 

8. Did you know….
Walter Arnold – 1st person in Great Britain charged with speeding on 28/ 1 /1896.
Travelling at approx kph, he’d exceeded the 3.22kph speed limit for towns.
Fined 1sh, he was caught by a policeman who had given chase on a bicycle. 

9. Did you know….
The bicycle is one of the most efficient inventions in the history of mankind.
A gallon of gasoline (about 4 liters) contains about 31,000 calories.
If a person could drink gasoline, then a person could ride about 912 miles on a gallon of gas (about 360 km per liter).

10. Did you know….
There are more bikes than people in the Netherlands, and the cities are planned to accommodate bikes rather than cars.

11. Did you know….
Cyclists in bike sprint races try to ride as slowly as possible.

12. Did you know….
Every year between 12,000 and 15,000 bikes are pulled out from the canals of Amsterdam

13. Did you know…. Wooden bikes were a thing once
The first constructed bike was almost entirely made of wood and several thousand copies were built and used.

14. Did you know….
The San Francisco Police Department estimates that 90% of bike thieves are drug addicts, and bicycles are considered a form of street currency. 

15. Did you know….
Race Across America is a bicycle race that is 700 miles longer than the Tour de France and has no stages. This means the competitors race about 3,000 miles and rarely stop. –

16. Did you know….
The world’s fastest bicycle was custom designed for £1,000,000
Took 4 years to make
Theoretical top speed of 250 mph and has such a high gear ratio that it can travel 150 feet for every turn of the pedals.

17. Did you know….
There are over a half billion bicycles in China. Bikes were first brought to China in the late 1800s.
About 100 million bicycles are manufactured worldwide each year.
There are roughly one billion bicycles in the world (about twice as many as motor vehicles) and roughly half a billion of them are in China.

18. Did you know….
n 1985, John Howard, Olympic cyclist and Ironman triathlon winner from the US, set the world speed record for a bicycle when he reached 245,08 km/h cycling in the slipstream of a specially designed car.
On October 3, 1995, Dutch cyclist Fred Rompelberg pedaled in the slipstream of a dragster at 268,831 km/h, a record that still stands!!

19. Did you know….
Fred A. Birchmore, 25, circled the globe by bicycle in The entire trip, through Europe, Asia, and the United States, covered forty thousand miles. He pedaled about 25,000 miles. The rest was traveled by boat. He wore out seven sets of tires.

20. Did you know….
The worlds longest bicycle is 92 feet long.

21. Did you know….
Women who walk or bike 30 minutes a day have a lower risk of breast cancer.

22. Did you know….
Countries with the highest levels of cycling and walking generally have the lowest obesity rates.

23. Did you know….
An adult cyclist typically has a level of fitness equivalent to someone 10 years younger and a life expectancy two years above the average!!

24. Did you know….
Figures show the average person will lose 13 lbs (5.8 kilograms) in their first year of cycling to work

25. Did you know….
Bicycle commuting burns an average of 540 calories per hour.

26. Did you know…. Damien Hirst designed the world's most expensive bike
The most expensive bike ever, a Trek Madone or the "Butterfly Bike" designed by artist Damien Hirst, was auctioned for $500,000 at Sotherby's.

27. Did you know….
A study of nearly 2,400 adults found that those who biked to work were fitter, leaner, less likely to be obese, and had better triglyceride levels, blood pressure, and insulin levels than those who didn’t active commute to work.

28. Did you know…. This bike is world-record- breaking
The largest rideable bicycle has a wheel diameter of 3.3 m (10 ft 9.92 in) and was built by Didi Senft from Germany. Gut gemacht!

29. Did you know….
Cycling three hours or 30 kilometres per week halves your risk of heart disease and strokes

30. Did you know….
How many bikes can be parked in a single car parking space in a paved lot? Anywhere from 6 to 20.

31. Did you know….
The risk of fatality while cycling is just once every 32 million kilometres (20 million miles), or over 800 times around the world.

32. Did you know….
A study found almost three- quarters of fatal crashes (74%) in NYC involved a head injury and nearly all bicyclists who died (97%) were not wearing a helmet. Helmets have been found to be 85% effective in preventing head injury.

33. Did you know….
Compared to cars, a daily 16 kilometre commute saves the rider close to Ksh /day, 5 kilos of carbon dioxide emissions and they burn around 360 extra calories.

34. Did you know….
On a bicycle you can travel up to 1037 kilometres on the energy equivalent of a single litre of gas.

35. Did you know….
When Worldwatch Institute compared energy used per passenger-mile (calories)…
Bike calories
Car - 1,860 calories
Bus and trains fell about midway between
Walking still took 3 times as many calories as riding a bike the same distance.

36. Did you know…. Cycling is 3 times faster than walking
On a bicycle, you can travel three times faster than you can walk, for the same amount of energy. No other living thing can expend so little energy for so much self- powered travel!