Fit Mom's Blog

In honor of Earth Day, today in Denver, Colorado the B-cycle has been launched! B-cycle is a bicycle sharing program with 500 bikes across the city. Simply insert your credit card {$5 per 24 hour period} and check out a bike! You can use it for one hour or 24 hours!  Simply return it to a B-cycle station when you are done with it.

I love this concept.  You can vote to get it in your city here.  The EFFECTS of using a bicycle for even a few miles is mind boggling.   If just 10% of my city’s population used a bicycle for 30 miles, it would equal 203, 658 miles.  It would save 10,000 gallons of gas.  Remove 6,788 cars and burn 9,571,080 calories!  And, even better, that’s going to help each rider lose .4 pounds just by biking 30 miles.

Don’t forget that cycling is blast.  It makes me feel like a kid again.  Now, if I could just get over my fear of my 6 year old riding in traffic, I’d be in business.

Take every opportunity to do something fun for you and your family!