Ride a bike to work

Here for a change is an exer­cise ori­en­tated arti­cle. Im a huge fan of things you can eas­ily do in your every­day life with­out notic­ing them, yet they still help you lose weight. Things such as park­ing at the back of the car park and eat­ing slower. This arti­cle is no excep­tion, its about rid­ing your bike to work instead of tak­ing your car to work.

Its not hard at all to ride a bike to work, infact a good friend of mines dad road to work on a reg­u­lar basis at the dis­tance of roughly thirty miles. Luck­ily for him though that was in Aus­tralia where it was mostly sunny. Not to men­tion he had a good qual­ity rac­ing bike and all of the appro­pri­ate gear mak­ing it eas­ier for him. What makes me say it isnt that hard is because his dad was not skinny and was infact over weight yet he man­aged to do that with what appeared to be ease, day in day out.

Theres actu­ally a good chance that where you work has the appro­pri­ate stor­age solu­tions for your bike. I know that at my uni­ver­sity there is bike lock­ers where you can lock your bike up free of charge with your own locker key etc. There is only maybe twenty lock­ers but it seems to be suf­fi­cient and infact, I dont think all of them are in use. If your not lucky enough to have bike lock­ers then you can eas­ily get a good qual­ity chain that is saw proof. Note though that even though it might be saw proof it wont be grinder proof mean­ing that if you leave it in a place that some­one could pull that off your bike might go miss­ing so the best place to store it would be on cam­pus or in a good spot near your work.

Rid­ing your bike to work will not only give you the ben­e­fit of exer­cise with your legs but it will also save you money in park­ing and fuel. Espe­cially because fuel is so expen­sive now, notably in the United Kingdom.

 

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