Cycling and health – Obviously a winning team

A study published recently in the British Medical Journal has proven once more what committed cycle commuters have known for a long time: Taking your bike to get to work makes you fitter! Using a large, nationally-representative dataset, the authors of the paper found that using an active mode of transport for commuting is correlated with a significantly lower Body Mass Index and body fat percentage than using passive modes like cars or motorbikes. Read more.