In the USA it is hard to find an 8 year old, a male or a female, who does not know how to bike. Though biking is not much used as a means of primary transportation, many people take their bikes out in the summer for recreational touring. In Holland bikes are used as a means of primary transportation by a large number of people. People use bikes to go to schools, to work, do shopping and visit friends all the time. Streets are designed as bike friendly and there are special rental and parking facilities for bikes in the city areas. In Bangladesh where most people either walk or ride rickshaws, biking could have been made popular if it could be made available to common people at an affordable price. Parents need to buy bikes for their children and encourage them to learn biking. Industries need to come up with full size, as well as, children's bikes, at lower costs to make this happen. The government may come forward with incentives to the industrialists who show interests in such venture to help at the early stages, until they become self supporting or profitable.
If biking can be made popular in this country of 140 million people, it will not only develop healthy generations, it will save time for millions and help speed up the economy as well as save foreign exchange.
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