{"id":2134,"date":"2013-12-03T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T14:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2014-02-03T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:10:51","slug":"bicycles-outselling-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/bicycles-outselling-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycles outselling cars."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data shows that in 2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-25209551\">bicycles outsold cars in 26 of the European Union&#8217;s 28 states<\/a>.\u00a0 That sounds like good news.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons are undocumented though informed conjecture suggests that the cost of fuel and the opportunity for a more healthy lifestyle are helping boost demand for cycles. Cities are also promoting cycling, through bicyle share schemes, more cycle lanes and more cycle friendly areas in city centres.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the fun of cycling is having the wind in your hair, but that means you are more exposed to hard knocks.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always loved biking, but it can be lethal since car drivers are often oblivious to bikes.\u00a0 (I used to be too, until motorbike school showed me how invisible a two-wheeler is to car drivers.) Fortunately, nowadays, you can have the wind and the protection with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hovding.com\/en\/\">invisible helmet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a good sign that cycles remain popular. Let&#8217;s hope their attractiveness continues as economies resuscitate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data shows that in 2012, bicycles outsold cars in 26 of the European Union&#8217;s 28 states.\u00a0 That sounds like good news. The reasons are undocumented though informed conjecture suggests that the cost of fuel and the opportunity for a more healthy lifestyle are helping boost demand for cycles. Cities are also promoting cycling, through bicyle &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/bicycles-outselling-cars\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bicycles outselling cars.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-yq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}