Bicycle Commute-The Need of the Hour

"If you are worried about falling off the bike ,you'd never get on"-said cycling Legend Lance Edward Armstrong

Friends I could still remember the days that learned to ride bicycle,when my brother let go off the back of the bicycle ,I straightaway plunged the bicycle into a famous canal in my area and even sparing a old lady on the way.But When I had the control over bicycle,I got a sense of complete freedom,great achievement,accomplishment and and a feeling of promotion into big kids.These are some of my memorable moments with bicycle.But Why Bicycle is the need of the hour?For this I am going to give you three reasons that proves bicycle is the need of the hour and they are shortly abbreviated as GET.

Lets begin with First reason ie G in the GET means Good health.
I thought about it when I was riding my bike-said Albert Einstein on his theory of relativity.Yes friends I do have similar experiences with my bicycle.During campus recruitment I couldn't clear the interviews of first three companies,consequently I was totally depressed and in the bottom of the world.I didn't want to attend any other interviews.But the ride which I took day before the fourth interview lifted me up,relieved me from depression and clear the interview so easily.This effect is proved by one of the researches also and it states that the working conditions of cycling activates the neurotransmitters such as serotonin,epinephrine and endorphin which battles the sadness and stress.It gives the rider the knowledge of being well and relieves him from the pain.We have other obvious health benefits from cycling.what are those.Those are
1.Reduced risk of coronary heart diseases
2.Reduces overweight and obesity
3.It is the prescribed medication by doctors for diabetes patients


We have seen the first reason,lets move on the next reason.ie E in GET stands for Environmental effect.What is the cost of rice today?what is the cost of vegetables?whats is the cost of thur dhall ?It is all high,not reachable by normal person.why is the increase on cost of basic food materials?
The so called Environmental Effect and climatic change which actually reduced the productivity of the land.Moreover An international level conference is to be conducted on DEC 7 in Copenhagen with more than 143 countries participating in it to discuss how to control this climatic change.However by taking this little step of commuting work or school through cycle will give a positive impact on this climatic change.By reducing carbon di oxide emission ,the cycle can be declared as coolant of global warming.For example consider this,If everyone who lives within 8km of their workplace where to commute using bicycle at least one day in a week could save million tons of global warming pollution in an year which is equivalent to taking millions of cars off the road.


We have seen two reasons and last reason T in GET stands for Time benefit.To illustrate this, we are going to have two conversation- one happening between wife and husband and another between mother and son.First one Wife :calls up"Darling can you come home early I miss you so much"
Husband:No honey I am caught up in traffic jam,I cant come early.The second conversation Mother:son cant look after your health properly?you are so weak.
Son:No mom,I don't have time to look after those things and I am caught in this traffic jam,talk to u later.what was happening?This is the situation that is happening to me ,you and everyone of us today.It happens at every part of the world.Why?Because of traffic congestion.More importantly I could big luxurious cars traveling with only one passengers ,a major contributor to this congestion.Because of this , even the Emergency vehicles such as Fire Engine,Ambulance are not able to reach the destination in time.Friends Bicycle commute will definitely save your time that you spent on the roads and also on the fitness clubs.Few of my friends argued that motor bikes are faster than bicycle,for those who believe in that I am going to highlight the test drive carried out by a daily Bangalore mirror.It is done on important roads of the Bangalore,let me give the results of one of the roads.Hosur Road-Dairy circle to Madivala check post ,Distance :1.5kms,Test drive started at:5.50 pm:Time taken by respective vehicles are given below
Cycle:7:00 minutes
Car:12:05 minutes
Motor Bike:10:45 minutes
Walk:18:23 minutes
so the results are so obvious that the bicycle commute saves your time.

Finally I could like to quote Mahatma Gandhi 's words
"Be the change you want to see"
So If want to see the change in your health,environment and time and need to get G-Good Health and E-Environmental Benefit and T-Time Benefit what we need to do?
"GO GET YOUR BICYCLES NOW"