Born on June 3
World Bicycle Day
Two wheels, two centuries, one good ride.
Next: June 3, 2027
Where it comes from
The UN General Assembly declared 3 June World Bicycle Day on 12 April 2018, in resolution 72/272, adopted by consensus. The idea came from Leszek Sibilski, a former member of Poland's national cycling team who became a sociology professor in the United States; he made the case in blog posts in 2015 and 2016 and…
How it's celebrated
The resolution welcomes bicycle rides at national and local level and asks countries to make roads safer for people who walk and cycle. On the first World Bicycle Day, people rode out in Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Germany, France and Zambia, among other places.
Did you know
The bicycle's ancestor, Karl Drais's wooden 'running machine', had no pedals; on 12 June 1817 he pushed it along with his feet from Mannheim to a post house on the road to Schwetzingen and back in about an hour.
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