Items from a Cleveland Plain Dealer article on Bike week

[Bob James]

Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity, " I thought of that
while riding my bike".

12 -- The number of bicycles that can be parked in a typical
automotive parking spot.

100 Calories --- Will move a bicycle 3 miles OR
move a car 280 feet

Fifteen Percent of Japanese workers bicycle commute

1.67% of American workers bicycle commute

$29,299 Average cost, including finance charges, of
a new car or SUV in the
United States

$385 Average cost of a new bicycle *

two to one Ratio of bicycles to cars on earth.

833 Number of US bicycle deaths in 1995

733 Number of US bicycle deaths in 2006

39 to 45 thousand Number of head injuries that would be prevented
annually
if children 15 and under were required
to wear bicycle helmets.


* Probably not for Freewheelers