Ensure you never miss a Hereford Times headline. Click here to add the Hereford Times as a Preferred Source in Google Search<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n By the time I arrived, my legs were certainly aware they had done some work, reminding me that cycling and swimming use very different muscles.\n<\/p>\n
\n For the return trip, in the interests of journalism rather than personal comfort, I upgraded to an e-bike. Frankly, it was a game changer.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 2.28-mile ride back took 10 minutes and 37 seconds.\n<\/p>\n
\n My average speed jumped to 12.9mph, I briefly hit 19.3mph and burned a further 96 active calories.\n<\/p>\n
\n Apart from taking the turn from Hinton Road into Putson Avenue at a fair lick and slightly wider than planned and finding a Fiesta heading towards me, it was entirely stress-free.\n<\/p>\n
\n The standard bike cost \u00a31.75 and the e-bike \u00a33.18. Driving may have been cheaper with \u00a32 in parking and \u00a31.20 in fuel, but you do have to factor in insurance, tax, MOT and wear and tear.\n<\/p>\n
\n The only real downside wasn’t the bikes, or the routes, or even the cost. Having put in moderate rather than leisurely effort, I did arrive back at the office somewhat warmer than I would have liked.\n<\/p>\n
\n On a 25C day, cycling is inevitably a sweatier experience than my air-conditioned car.\n<\/p>\n
\n Will I be selling the car and embracing a life of Lycra? Absolutely not, but I would absolutely cycle from Rotherwas into town again.\n<\/p>\n
\n It pains me slightly to admit it as a committed motorist, but for this particular journey the bike wasn’t just healthier and arguably cheaper. It may actually have been the better option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After all, I am not a cyclist, but like the idea of Hereford’s Beryl bike hire scheme, where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}