Article-About-Cycle-Shelters-With-A-Look-At-How-Mo17

Article about cycle shelters with a look at how
modern cars are generally considered to have
originated in the year 1885 which coincidentally is
the year when most people consider was the year
of the first modern bicycle.
fixed gear bike

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It is a remarkable coincidence that the first modern combustion petrol driven
car is attributed to Karl Benz with his 1895 model and that the first modern
bicycle is generally considered to have been born in the same year in France
With around six hundred million cars in the world today it is one of the greatest
inventions of man Six hundred million equates to about one car to every
eleven people on the planet It may surprise you to know that there are almost
double that number of bicycles in the world at an estimated one billion and that
many social historians consider the bicycle to have had an even bigger impact
than the car

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To take just one example where the bicycle has had a major influence the
women's suffragette movement at the beginning of the twentieth century
claimed it gave women the greatest feeling of freedom which also resulted in a
change in dress design Suddenly bloomers were revealed by cycling young
women and the action was considered racy by some and denounced by crusty
old clerics who saw the bike as an ungodly machine when used by the fairer
sex Another very strange fact is that neither the bike nor the car has really
changed that much in well over the hundred and twenty five years since their
invention If you take a look at a photograph of a bicycle from 1915 and look at
one today the differences are negligible

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The modern bike is lighter and has refinements like more gears and better
breaks but the concept and mechanics is the same With the car there are
certainly many more noticeable differences from a 1905 photograph to a car
on the fixed gear bike road today but here again, apart from the looks and
much technical advancement both are still run by a combustion engine fed on
fossil fuel Between the inventions of both these relatively unchanged forms of
transport a man managed to glide in the first plane over a few hundred yards
and then later on someone flew the English Channelfollowed by jet power and
eventually rockets to the moon With planes now capable of three times the
speed of sound and space craft flying to Mars the really big mystery is why
cars have and bicycles not progressed any further? A cynic would answer that
question in relation to cars by saying that the simple answer is that there is a
massive amount of money involved in fossil fuels and if they weren't needed it
is no exaggeration to say that whole nations would collapse

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In the U K alone where over two million new cars are sold each year the
amount of money the British government makes from all forms of transport is
hundreds of times more than they invest back into roads and other transport
costs

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Meanwhile the bike keeps rolling along and as long as long as there are bikes
there is need of Many inventors have tried to improve on the standard road
bike but none have succeeded and the old adage seems to be true that if it
isn't broken, don't fix it

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fixed gear bike

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