Bicycle - Uses

Uses

Bicycles have been and are employed for many uses:

  • Utility: transportation, bicycle commuting, and utility cycling
  • Work: mail delivery, paramedics, police, couriering, and general delivery.
  • Recreation: bicycle touring, mountain biking, BMX, physical fitness, and play.
  • Racing: track racing, criterium, roller racing and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour of California, Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France, the Vuelta a EspaƱa, the Volta a Portugal, among others.
  • Military: scouting, troop movement, supply of provisions, and patrol. See bicycle infantry.
  • Show: entertainment and performance, e.g. Artistic cyclings.
  • Transporting milk churns in Kolkata, India

  • A cargo bicycle in Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • A toy, Abbottabad, KPK, Pakistan.

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