Mumbai : On September 5, the Godrej Eon Tour de India 2012, a big cycling carnival, was announced. Starting from Mumbai on November 4 and culminating at Budh International Circuit, Delhi NCR, on November 11, the event is being promoted by the Maharashtra Cycling Association, Tourism Ministry and the Cycling Federation of India.
In metros and large cities, such cyclothons are getting popular as young adults increasingly take to cycling for recreation, fitness, traffic congestion issues, and due to the development of cycling tracks by state governments – as at the Bandra Kurla Complex and Carter Road in Mumbai – and housing developers. Shikhar Sachdev, 30, a chartered accountant with a multinational company in Mumbai, bought his bicycle for Rs. 12,000 recently “to skip early morning traffic snarls, and remain active.” Read more
Source : www.hindustantimes.com
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