When and why is World Bicycle Day celebrated? Learn 10 interesting things

World Bicycle Day 2023: It is the dream of every child in the world to have a bicycle of his own, which he can ride with great pleasure. Every person has some or the other story related to bicycle. However, very few people would know that World Cycle Day is also celebrated every year.

World Bicycle Day is celebrated every year on 3 June. In the year 2018, the United Nations General Assembly had announced to celebrate World Bicycle Day on 3 June. One of the biggest reasons behind celebrating this is that the importance of the bicycle can be explained to the people. By cycling, the human body remains healthy and remains very active.

help keep the body strong
Riding a bicycle or learning it is considered to be one of the biggest achievements of one’s early childhood. This is the most favorite moment of any person’s childhood. There are many types of health-related development by cycling, which helps in keeping our body strong. However, there are many such interesting things and information about it, which probably very few people would know.

10 interesting things related to bicycle

• The word bicycle is derived from the French word ‘bicyclette’. Before this name the bicycle was known as Velocipedes
• In the first 40 years, three most famous types of cycles came. These included the French Boneshaker, the English Penny-Farthing and the Rover Safety.
• Seven out of eight people over the age of 15 in the Netherlands own a bicycle.
• The high-wheel bicycle used to be a popular bicycle in the 1870s.
• The word bicycle was not used until 1860.
• Fred A. Burchmore, 25 years old, circled the world for the first time in 1935 by bicycle. He traveled 40,000 miles during that time and pedaled for 25,000 miles.
• Only one percent of the total population living in the cities of America use bicycles.
• Today, there are more than one and a half billion bicycles in China.
• Around 100 million (100 million) bicycles are made worldwide every year.
• The Tour de France is one of the most famous bicycle races in the world.

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