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How Many Bikes Are There in the World? Nobody knows exactly how many bikes exist in the world, but it is estimated that there are somewhere around 1 billion. It’s a huge number. For comparison, there are around 1.5 billion cars in the world. At the end of the last century, the numbers were as follows: China is massively holding the first position. China, India, EU, Taiwan, and Japan are responsible for 87% of global production. 364,000 bicycles are produced daily.  That’s 15,000 per hour, or 253 a minute, or 4 bikes a second. 47 670 bikes are being sold daily.  Yes, every two seconds, someone will buy a bike. Source:  Statista Every 19th person in the world buys a bike each year. The production numbers for bicycles are 2.5x higher than for cars. Bikes vs Cars   In 2016,  Copenhagen announced  that for the first time in history there were more bikes than cars on its streets.  It has been one of Copenhagen’s top priorities to make the city bicycle-friend...

Cycle power: Bikes emerge as a post-lockdown commuter option By ARITZ PARRA May 3, 2020 MADRID (AP) — Halfway through his 30-minute bike ride to work, police ordered Juan Pasamar to dismount, accusing him of breaking Spain’s coronavirus lockdown rules by exercising in public. The officers were not buying his explanation he was commuting to his job outside of Zaragoza, the northern city where he lives. “You have a car, don’t you? Why don’t you use that?” he said he was asked. Pasamar eventually had to hire a lawyer to convince police that the government had not banned cycling during the lockdown. As countries seek to get their economies back on track  after the devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, bicycle use is being encouraged as a way  to avoid unsafe crowding on trains and buses.

There are very few engineering machines, where knowing how it works is difficult than actually working on it. Bicycles are one of those things! It is true that the  exact reasons  validated by both theoretical proof and experimental evidence has not been found for which  all factors  contribute to the balancing of bicycles and by how much. Currently we talk only in terms of major and minor factors for this sort-of magical stability of bicycles. Even then, there are confusion regarding which is the most important factor and how much it accounts for it. In this article, I will be mentioning the major reasons that have been proved experimentally. There are 4 important factors that contributes to balancing of bicycles. The ability of the front wheel to turn into the fall. The trail of steering axis Gyroscopic Precession (Secondary reason - Earlier this was considered to be the primary reason Operator skill that many times acts effortlessly. The ability of front wheel to ...

[Good News] Trinidad UCI team leader Eva Lechner ranked second in the Andalusia championship TRINX Trinidad TR   Trinidad TRINX 2/28   2020  Nian  2  Yue  25  days, when most parts of continental Europe in the cold and fog also enveloped them, at the southernmost tip of Spain has already begun to pick up.  One of the most prestigious  UCI  mountain races in the world,  The Andalucía Bike Race  kicked off. Andalucía Bike Race is a cross-country mountain bike stage race in the year  2  in late February or  3  held early.  The competition lasts five to six days and is usually held in and around Andalusia, Spain. The first session was  held  in  2011  .  Each stage takes approximately one and a half hours to three and a half hours to complete. 今年的安达卢西亚自行车赛是第十届，于 2 月 25 日至 3 月 1 日举行，每天进行一个赛段，每个赛段长达 70km ，平均爬升高度 1800 米。六个里程总计 364km ，总攀爬高度达 11400 米。 该比赛是 ...

Road wheel set replacement DIY Original   cycling bicycling cycling 1 week ago     Many riders will want to buy a new wheel set to cope with different riding situations,  so how to replace the wheel set DIY?  Then I asked Lin Zhengnan, a giant bike rider, to do demonstrations for readers. Lin Zhengnan said that when getting the new wheel set, pay attention to whether there is a quick release and brake block. For the CADEX wheel set used in this demonstration, it has a dedicated quick release, and because it is a carbon fiber wheel set, it must be Use original brake pads.  When installing the tire, pay attention to the direction of the tire. ▲ Assemble the new wheel on the tire and quick release. ▲ Demonstration talent: Lin Zhengnan, Giant Rhenium Bicycle Life Museum ▲ Use tools: DIY take-off wheel removal tool, flywheel fixing tool and sleeve, tweezers, hexagon wrench ▲ Release the C-clamp brake and remove the orig...