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According to a 2021 Department of Transport survey, the distance travelled by Brits on a bike was an staggering 4.2 billion miles. Across the water, it's been calculated, by the United States Census Bureau, that an impressive 616,153 people commute by bike every day.

That's a lot of people going about their daily business on a bike. 

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