Cycling

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Cycling is the sport, recreational activity and means of transportation of riding a bicycle. Since the creation of the first practical bicycles in the early 1800s, cycling has grown to the point that each year roughly 100 million bicycles are produced worldwide. [1]

History

Sport cycling

Recreational cycling

Cycling as transportation

References

  1. Bicycle Production Remains Strong Worldwide, Earth Policy Institute, December 2005 http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Bike/2005.htm