Cycling regularly will improve your fitness and can help you maintain a healthy weight. Three quarters of all personal journeys are less than five miles long - that's half an hour on a bike.
Getting on your bike regularly not only gets you where you want to go faster, it protects you against a wide range of ill health problems and also makes you feel better. Forget traffic jams and problems with parking - riding your bike provides real door to door travel. Like all exercise, cycling can de-stress you and give you more zest for life.
Cycling is particularly good because it puts little strain on joints such as ankles and knees. It not only helps to shed those extra pounds, but also helps increase muscle tone and reduces the risk of heart attacks
Switching your short journeys from car to bicycle will benefit your health and your community. You'll be helping to reduce noise and air pollution as well as traffic congestion.
Cycling is the fastest mode of urban transport, since our towns and cities started to grind to a halt. Cycling brings train and bus stations up to two miles away within easy reach, no parking charges, and no fighting for a place.
Find out about rural and urban cycle routes around the borough.
Check out the Let's Ride website for free bike rides to join and great cycle routes to explore.
Find out where cycle parking is located around the town centre.
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council adopted a Cycling Strategy in March 2016, which is intended to:
For further information please visit our 'Borough Cycling Strategy' page.
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