Comments on: Team Stretton Gears Up for the Tour de Presteigne! http://www.strettonclimatecare.org.uk/events/team-stretton-gears-up-for-the-tour-de-presteigne/ Think Globally, Act Locally Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:09:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jon http://www.strettonclimatecare.org.uk/events/team-stretton-gears-up-for-the-tour-de-presteigne/#comment-1720 Jon Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:50:01 +0000 http://www.strettonclimatecare.org.uk/?p=615#comment-1720 The Presteigne week end sounds a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to it but it has a serious side as well. A bicycle is one of the most energy efficent machines ever invented yet many languish rusting at the back of garages or in garden sheds. Add a little bit of electric power (green generated if you can) and you have a really good alternative to the car. Did you know most car journies are less than two miles. Hardly time for the engine to warm up. There are no car park charges with a bike, no road fund tax, no compulsory insurance, minimum running costs, no pollution yet we have this love affair with our cars and seem to use them at every excuse. Time to oil those wheels, get fitter and if you are not so fit or live in a hilly area like I do consider buying an electric bike and leave the car behind. Transport emissions in the U.K. are enormous yet many of us could go back to a bike, we'd be the fitter for it and save a heck of a lot of money as well as reducing CO2. The Presteigne week end sounds a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to it but it has a serious side as well. A bicycle is one of the most energy efficent machines ever invented yet many languish rusting at the back of garages or in garden sheds.
Add a little bit of electric power (green generated if you can) and you have a really good alternative to the car. Did you know most car journies are less than two miles. Hardly time for the engine to warm up.

There are no car park charges with a bike, no road fund tax, no compulsory insurance, minimum running costs, no pollution yet we have this love affair with our cars and seem to use them at every excuse.

Time to oil those wheels, get fitter and if you are not so fit or live in a hilly area like I do consider buying an electric bike and leave the car behind.

Transport emissions in the U.K. are enormous yet many of us could go back to a bike, we’d be the fitter for it and save a heck of a lot of money as well as reducing CO2.

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