"For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon" Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist
ANy one know how true this is?
"For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon" Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist
slacker wrote:...... and cycling uses around 30 - 40 calories a mile ...............your mileage may vary as they say.
snibgo wrote:Or 775,000 miles/gallon (http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_rad ... 1274071598).
rualexander wrote:It's maybe on the high side but in the right 'ball park'.
A gallon of petrol (gasoline) 'contains' somewhere between 29,000 and 34,000 calories (see here, a cyclist riding leisurely at around 10mph burns around 200 calories per hour, therefore would cycle for around 160 hours on 32,000 calories, and would travel 1600 miles.
All highly hypothetical of course, we can't drink petrol!
snibgo wrote:When making such weird comprisons, it's worth mentioning that our "gallons" are renewable.
hubgearfreak wrote:if you exist exclusively upon food from your own allotment ...