Pub. 3 2013 Issue 2

16 AT THE CENTER OF UTAH INDUSTRY If it Can’t Be Grown, It has to Be Mined! BICYCLES MINING PRODUCTS IN W alkingmaybeawonderful form of exercise, but sometimes a person needs a little help getting from point A to point B. After all, if you assume that the average person can walk about three miles in an hour, that doesn’t exactly give you a broad area to explore. On average, people drive about 10,000 miles a year. Divide that by 365, and you get a little more than 27 miles per day, which might take approximately nine hours of walking time. That’s just too much time spent walking, and not enough time left over for much of anything else. With numbers like that, it’s no wonder that people walk for pleasure more than they do for transportation. Of course, it’s a lot easier to get around if you have something to help you … preferably, something with wheels. But what if you don’t want to use anything with wheels and an engine? In that case, one relatively inexpensive and practical alternative is the bicycle. Bicycles have been around since Baron von Drais invented a wooden walking machine —called a hobby horse — that helped him move more quickly around his gardens. It had wheels, but it didn’t have pedals or a seat. You moved it by straddling it and rolling it with your feet. The next innovation took place in 1865, when the Velocipede was invented. This