Sale of bikes already surpasses that of cars in 23 European countries

Both the bike and the car were invented in Germany, why is ancient taste of Europeans by both means of transport. However, in the last year, the sale of bicycles supplanted the car in 23 of the 27 Member States of the European Union.

For example, in Italy, the sale of bicycles supplanted the car for the first time since World War II, while in Spain, for the first time, the sale of bicycles are at the top of the table.

Researchers attribute this change to the car's European global recession of 2008, of which the EU economy is still slowly recovering.

The sale of cars reached its minimum for the last 20 years in the first half of 2013. The biggest discrepancy arises in Romania, with a sale of 380 thousand bicycles, against 72 thousand cars. Germany already has sold the largest number of bicycles, in particular, 3.9 million against three million cars.

Many European Governments have instituted policies favourable to the use of bicycles as well as infrastructures which promote cycling as an alternative to highway driving.

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