Raina Taitano participating in Bike to Work Day 2010 in San Diego, California. ZUMA Press/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: zumawireworldphotosthree459151
Bicycles have multiple uses for owners including fun, fitness, and transportation. During May, which is national bike month, it is time to celebrate all the different uses for bikes. This week, transportation moves to front and center during “bike to work week”.
The Friday of bike to work week is also bike to work day for those who want to bike to work but can’t do the full week. I was surprised to find out that this is actually the 56th year of bike to work week. The holiday was started by the League of American Bicyclists in 1956. Today there are bike weeks all around the world which help to make bike safety and bike paths more accessable to everyone.
A bike track in the Negev desert near Nitzana, Israel. Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: cecreative026312
For some cyclists a regular bike is not enough they go the extra step to create their own bike out of stuff I would never have thought of including wood.
Collin Graver, 15, rides his homemade plywood bicycle for the first time in front of his home in Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA on 03 April 2012. Graver, a home school student, came up with the idea himself, which took about two weeks and $35 to complete. ERIK S. LESSER/EPA/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: epaphotos353636
People call him 'Crazy Slavek'. Mr. SLAVEK WEREMKIEWICZ lives in Biala Podlaska city in Poland. He retired a few years ago and since than he has been making ecological bikes. Everything in his bikes is made from wood with not a single piece of metal. Slavek worked as a plumber and because of this he hates metal and corrosion. It takes him approximately six months to make one bike and at present has produced seven wooden bikes. ZUMA Press/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: zumawirewestphotosfive468818
A cyclist with bicycle-shaped sunglasses smiles during a protest calling for more and safer bicycle infrastructure, in Rome's central Via dei Fori Imperiali near the Colosseum on April 28, 2012. Thousands of cyclists staged a protest near the Colosseum in Rome on Saturday to draw attention to poor road safety and the lack of provisions for bike lovers in the car-cluttered Eternal City. FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: afplivefour414963
With more focus on the environment impact of cars, bikes have become one of the most popular forms of transportation and bike to work day is the highlight for the movement to get more people to switch to bikes.
If biking to work doesn’t work for you at least dust off the bike and ride for fun. Bikes can get you places a car will never be able to go and you could find some natural beauty away from the cities.
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Todd Fields mounts his bicycle along a stretch of road from Ormond Beach toward Ocala where he hopes to find work. He's an unemployed carpenter and roofer, 50 years old, who sold most of his possession in Arizona and traveled to Florida where he assumed work could be found. He is officially homeless. Everything he owns is stored on his backpack. He had sought work in Daytona Beach. Instead of finding work he got hassled by the police because they lumped him together with homeless people who were not seeking work and causing trouble. Chris Fitzgerald / Candidate Photos/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: cpphotos003773
Actor Alec Baldwin leaves a Manhattan gym on his bicycle on April 25 2012 in New York City. infusny-220/ACE/INFphoto.com/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: infphotos518865
Wedding bells rang out at this bizarre ceremony - where 14 brides and bridegrooms got hitched riding tandems. The seven couples - all workers at a children's hospital in Liaocheng, Shandong province, eastern China - decided to ditch traditional wedding cars to do their bit for the ecology. "We all work with children and they won't have much of a future unless we take care of the planet," one of the grooms told local media. Let's hope they weren't all too tyred out for the honeymoon. Europics/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: epphotos014073
Team GB Olympic mountain bike team member David Fletcher rides the improved Olympic Mountain Bike Course at Hadley Farm in Essex, Britain, 04 April 2012. The Olympic Mountain Bike Course has been altered ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games after receiving feedback from competitors that have used the course in Olympic test events. GEOFF CADDICK/EPA/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: epaphotos353904
Urs Huber from Switzerland riding in team Sta–Ckli Pro leads the peleton through a river crossing during stage 2 of the Absa Cape Epic mountain bike team stage race in Robertson, South Africa, 27 March 2012. The Absa Cape Epic is the premier multi day stage race in the world and sees 1,200 cyclists riding in pairs over 780km and climbing more than 16,300 meters, twice the height of Mount Everest over 8 days of racing. NIC BOTHMA/EPA/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: epaphotos344447
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