Health
Cycling for Physical Health: Turning Everyday Trips into Exercise
How everyday cycling improves heart, metabolic, and musculoskeletal health—and how simple safety upgrades like lights and car-horn-loud bicycle horns make it easier to ride consistently.
read-more →Beyond Home and Work: Bikes, Third Places, and Social Health Across the Lifespan
- Safety
- November 27, 2025
- 12 mins
How walking, cycling, and people-first streets can cut loneliness and rebuild social health from childhood through older age in car-centric societies.
read-more →The Importance of Covering Your Eyes When Biking
- Safety
- December 18, 2025
- 9 mins
Why cyclists should treat eye protection as essential safety gear, from debris and UV to glare, reaction time, and long-term vision health.
read-more →Cycling for Environmental Health: Air Quality, Noise, and Population-Level Benefits
- Safety
- November 30, 2025
- 12 mins
How shifting everyday trips from cars to bikes cuts air pollution, reduces harmful noise, and delivers outsized population-level health benefits.
read-more →Growing Up on Two Wheels: How Independent Mobility Builds Healthier, Happier Kids and Teens
Evidence from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and beyond shows that kids who walk and cycle independently gain physical, cognitive, and mental health benefits that last into adulthood.
read-more →Staying Upright, Staying Independent: How Everyday Mobility Protects Health in Older Age
From walking speed to bicycle trips to the shops, everyday mobility is one of the strongest predictors of health, independence, and quality of life in older adults.
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