There’s no end to the benefits of cycling!

Simple, practical and cheap, cycling is now the preferred daily mode of transport of 10% of all French people.

People take up cycling for a variety of reasons: 80% do it for their health, 60% purely for the pleasure and 43% to save money.

So is cycling really that good for your health? Yes – great even! Many scientific studies have reported on this – regular cycling reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke as well as cutting their mortality rates by 30%. Even after adjusting for exposure to city pollution, cycling is still beneficial, and as a public health measure it’s highly cost-effective.

Another study, conducted by Heart, analysed 350,000 British people, finding that cycling to work reduced their risk of heart attack by 11% and mortality rates by 30%.

So where is your bike lying unused? You might want to dig it out and get pedalling!