Bicycles touted as

Cycling is not only good for the health, but can also help tackle global challenges like climate change and oil dependency, specialists argued at the world ‘Velo-City’ conference in Brussels this week.

“Transport relies to well over 90 percent on oil, be it transport on roads, by ship or by aircraft,” according to NGO’s oil.

“Peak oil is now,” Schindler warned, saying that he expected electric-powered bikes to turn bicycles into “the first modern post-fossil vehicle”.