World Bicycle Day 2021: Date & importance

World Bicycle Day is celebrated every year on June 3. The day aims at developing a culture of cycling for basic transportation, commutation, and strengthening physical and mental health. Read on to know more about it.

Source: IndiaToday

Physical activity or exercise is important if you want to be fit and healthy. Regular activity can improve your quality of life and reduces the risk of developing several diseases such as obesity, heart disease, cancer, mental illness, diabetes and arthritis. Riding a bicycle regularly is one of the best ways to reduce your risk of health problems associated with a sedentary lifestyle.

Cycling is a healthy, low-impact exercise that can be enjoyed by people of all ages, the scraped knees and scratched elbow after falling from our cycles are part of what makes childhood memories of playing so nostalgic.

However, as time went by, and we grew up, those cycles were left to rust in backyards and building compounds. Acknowledging the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle, every year World Bicycle Day is celebrated.

Its Date

World Bicycle Day is celebrated every year on June 3. This year, the day falls on Thursday. The day aims at developing a culture of cycling for basic transportation, commutation, and strengthening physical and mental health.

The first world bicycle day was celebrated when?

The first bicycle day was celebrated on June 3, 2018. Professor Leszek Sibilski, Polish social scientist working in the United States, led a grassroots campaign with his sociology class to promote a UN Resolution for World Bicycle Day. The original UN Blue and White #June3WorldBicycleDay logo was designed by Isaac Feld and the accompanying animation was done by Professor John E. Swanson.

Cycling and sustainable development

World Bicycle Day draws attention to recognise the longevity, uniqueness and versatility of the bicycle, and that it is an affordable, reliable, simple, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transport.

As per un.org, “The Bicycle contributes to cleaner air and less congestion and makes education, health care and other social services more accessible to the most vulnerable populations.

A sustainable transport system that promotes economic growth, reduces inequalities while bolstering the fight against climate change is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.”

How World Bicycle Day is celebrated?

Usually, on this day people would join others on a bicycle ride around town and hold other events that would involve bicycles. But this year due to lockdown there will not be any huge public gatherings as there have been in the past years.

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