World Bicycle Day

THE empowering and liberating impact of bicycles has been evident for decades. But its supremacy as an enabler was not well understood until Scientific American in 1973 analyzed the energy consumption of different forms of animal locomotion and concluded that nature’s most efficient traveler was a human on a bicycle. Steve Jobs used the example of a bicycle to describe the potential of computers: “I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the pl