Ride Your Bicycle and Get the Benefits

             I think most people agree that a bicycle is one of the economical and useful vehicles. The bicycle is a vehicle that has two wheels which uses human energy to make it work by spinning bicycle’s pedals. It does not produce pollution like others motor vehicles. Nowadays, the government has been forming a habit of cycling in cities like Bandung and Jakarta. Even the mayor city of London is going to imitate the program. The mayor of Bandung city and the Governor of Jakarta lead directly to start the program. Both make an event in car-free day on Sunday morning to socialize the program. The government hopes that people in the city ride bicycle at least for going to school or to work. They have made particular road in the main street for bicycle rider in Bandung and Jakarta. The purpose is to make people more pleasant and safe when they ride their bicycle. Even though some people think that using bicycle is not practical because it takes more time and it is a tiring activity. There are three reasons why people should use bicycles due to the effects of the traffic and our financial, also the benefit for our health.               First of all, decreasing traffic jams is one of the reasons. It happens because the narrow street that never becomes wider year by year and the number of vehicles in the road are the reasons why there are so many traffic jams everywhere. When we decrease the number of motor vehicles by using bicycles on the road, we make a chance to minimize the traffic jam. Dimension of a bicycle, which is not big as other transportation can give more space in the street so, the other transportation should not queue so long and wait too long. In addition, more bicycles mean less cars or motorcycles on the road. Steadily, we decrease congestion and minimize the traffic flow. In simple words, we can ride bicycles in the morning and in the evening when the traffic jam mostly occurs. We can go to school or work with the bicycles also if we want to go anywhere which is the destination is closer from our houses. It really helps to reduce the traffic jams.

Second, riding bicycle saves much money. Bicycle does not use fuel to function. So, we should not buy the fuel when we ride bicycles. We only round the pedals with our foot that is how to ride it. In other words, bicycle uses human energy to make it work and I think it is free because we should not pay for the energy. However, if we use motor vehicles such as motorcycle or car we must consider the fuel that we should prepare every day. In addition, we must think about the tax that we should pay a year or per five years. Besides, we must consider service and treatment cost. Mostly, service and treatment for a motorcycle is expensive, even for a car is more expensive. For example, a motorcycle which usually takes a service in a garage can cost until 100.000 – 200.000 IDR per a month. Then, for a car we should pay almost 1.000.000 per four month (myfamilyaccounting.wordpress.com).

The last, using a bicycle continuously keeps our health. When we ride bicycles at the same time, we are also doing an exercise because all parts of our body are moving, especially the legs part. For people who do not have much time to do an exercise, using bicycles can be an alternative to do a simple exercise and have a healthy lifestyle. Riding bicycles also builds and forms our muscles because all of our muscles are active when we ride bicycles. For example, we spin the bicycle’s pedals the leg muscle works, then the muscles which are locate in the arms also work because when we ride the bike we hold the handlebar to keep the body balance. Gradually, it helps to strengthen almost every muscle in the body and made the muscles work better. For instance, while we ride bicycles, foots muscles spin the pedals and muscles which are located in stomach and back are function to make the body balance. In addition, the exercise helps to decrease stress because every sport that we do can relief our stress. Stress is a great worry caused by a difficult situation, or something which causes this condition.     

In conclusion, people should ride bicycles because there are so many advantages that we can get from riding bicycles. The first benefit is decreasing the traffic jam, saving our money is the second benefit, and the last benefit is reserving the health. Therefore, let us bike together at least when we are going to school or office. Start it now for our kindness, and make it as a good habit.  

                                                                                                   By : Raadhiyah Mardiyyah
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