Name: Why Covid-19 Caused A Bike Boom
Uploaded: 2021-05-18T11:22:24.000Z
Duration: 11 min 33 s
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By this point, you've probably heard that more and

The bike industry said that sales in May were up

That's a second consecutive month that sales have

People have been scrambling to buy bicycles,

During the pandemic, some cities closed their

streets to give bikers and pedestrians more room

In the spring and summer of 2020 bike shops

struggled to meet the surging demand from new

cyclists. Since then, retailers have been able to

With more bikes, motorcycles, mopeds and scooters

on the road, transportation experts say the

All of this combined is called micromobility.

Here's how having more bikes on the road could

There are two groups of people who have picked up

biking during the pandemic, those who use it to

commute to work or get around, and those who use

it for fitness and recreational purposes.

She signed up for a Citi Bike membership in New

Using the bike for me right now is basically just

getting myself from one place to another.

I was not biking before the pandemic just because

biking in New York City was so scary and cars are

just all over the place and I just avoided bikes

at all costs. But now the reason why I changed is

because that there's lesser cars and I just feel

Shannon also represents the growing number of

women in the traditionally male dominated

activity. In New York, women are now the biggest

users of the city's bike-share program since it

A big reason behind the gender difference is that

fear and concerns about traffic safety, in

addition to personal safety, but primarily

traffic safety. And so in this environment where

there's less motor vehicle traffic, it certainly

has the potential for getting more women out

He wasn't biking before the pandemic, but now he

And so I bought some weights, but I really wasn't

I was getting a lot of cardio from basketball and

was, I guess, looking for another way to get some

exercise. I might just race for one season and

that might fall off. But I think cycling just for

fun and just for exercise is something that might

He scored a road bike by looking on Facebook

Marketplace, but not everyone has been as

fortunate. Early on in the pandemic, basic level

adult bicycles under 200 dollars led bike sales

soaring more than 203 percent from the year

prior. Sales of mountain bikes increased by more

higher-end bicycles worth more than $1000 like

Before the pandemic, high-end electric by company

VanMoof tripled its production in anticipation of

Demand is much higher than production at the

We worked harder than we've ever worked in our in

our lives. Just trying to keep up with things.

You know Specialized has been around almost 50

years. So it's not like there's no bikes, it just

The biking infrastructure in the United States

lags behind European nations and other countries

where cycling is already integrated into their

And for one big reason in the U.S., cars are

king. It's still the most common transportation

mode. And actually this is also very much an

impact of federal funding and federal policies.

Up to 1991, almost all federal funding was going

towards the building of highways towards, you

It's the first time in 1991 that we see some

dollars that is allocated to active means of

transportation, improvements for cycling and

biking. Since then, we have witnessed more

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