Tweet your inspired ideas on how to encourage cycling in South African cities before 21 March 2011 and you could win a Biomega NYC bike, courtesy of Desigindaba.com.
Still recovering from the 2011 Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour?
Cycling has never been as sexy as it is right now. If you don’t believe it, consider the benefits: owning a bicycle is cheaper than owning a car; it’s completely carbon-neutral versus the enormous amount of carbon gasses produced by a car; cycling is really good exercise and the South African climate is perfectly suited to it; and using a bicycle to move around the city also means less traffic and congestion and thus less frustration and road rage.
At the recent Design Indaba Conference, the revolutionary force behind the urban mobility movement in Denmark, Jens Martin Skibsted, campaigned for more bike-friendly cities and cultures, and illustrated its desirability with a range of beautiful bikes by Biomega and KiBiSi (see video below).
So it’s great that it works in Europe, but how do we go about encouraging a bicycle culture in South African cities?
Designindaba.com has set an initiative in motion to come up with a plan: tweet your inspired ideas on how to encourage cycling in South African cities before 21 March 2011 and you could win a Biomega NYC bike. Don’t forget to include the #designindaba tag…
