Cycle to Work scheme gets us on our bikes

WE haven’t quite hit the heights of Beijing’s nine million bikes, but we are embracing cycling with gusto, if sales figures under the Cycle to Work scheme are anything to go by.

A report published by the Irish Bicycle Business Association (IBBA) shows we bought 90,000 bikes in the first two years of the government scheme generating an estimated €138.68 million in direct and indirect sales.

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