If you want to lose weight, save money on gas and help the environment, write a 50-word essay describing how a bicycle can change your world. You could win a new Jamis Commuter 1 bike valued at $600. Bicycling Magazine editors have chosen Charleston as one of eight areas that will participate in their 2010 bike giveaway. The magazine will select 30 winning essays from Charleston. Each winner will receive a bike, helmet and lock. Participant essays are being accepted here. The giveaway is scheduled to take place Sept. 26 in Charleston.
Consider this: If everyone living within five miles of work cycled to work just one day a week, this would reduce nearly five million tons of global warming pollution a year, the equivalent of taking about a million cars off the road.
