2764) Bicycling in Belgium is now a popular mode of transport and sporting activities: A 2 1/2 Euro Coin is being presented to all Cycling enthusiasts as an incentive: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2023:
Belgian Bicycle popularity:
Belgian bicycle popularity is increasing every year.
Respondents in the FietsDNA Survey 2022 indicate that they find the bicycle financially attractive, flexible and fast.
Improvements in the (local) cycling infrastructure also contribute to the climate objectives of various municipalities. But the bicycle is no longer just an environmentally friendly and sporty means of transport. The difference between functional and recreational cycling is quickly disappearing. And that makes sense in such a beautiful cycling country as Belgium.
The bike has been around for more than 200 years.
Several Belgian cities have cycling schools and/or cycling lessons for adults, because cycling has an emancipating, reinforcing and integrating power. Cycling changes lives and prevents transport poverty.
It is also believed that cycling makes one sharper and brighter and provides a better memory.
There are various "bicycle landmarks" in some Belgian cities like - "Cycling through the Water", "Cycling through the Treetops" and "Cycling through the Heath" over a monumental bicycle bridge.
One can cycle on an old railway line - The "Vennbahn" is a cycling experience that runs through three countries, 125 km long over and along a railway line over which coal and iron ore were mainly transported for more than a century.
Between January and October 2023, more than 300 races will be organised in Belgium, indicating the popularity of this sport.
Mountain bikers in Belgium too have more than a hundred fixed mountain bike routes.
There s a "Day of the Slow Road" every third weekend of October in Belgium meant especially for hikers, cyclists and horse riders on which known and unknown routes and activities in nature and through the city that weekend take place.
The Coin:
If one cycles one block a complementary Coin of 2 1/2, Euros is given as an incentive.
On the outer periphery is the inscription - "EXPÉRIENCE CYCLISTE EN BELGIQUE" and "CYCLING EXPERIENCE IN BELGIUM" and two miniature bicycles.
On the Obverse of the 2 1/2 Euro Brass Coin are the usual graphic elements such as the value, the year and the European map.
A colourful and cheerful bike-inspired coincard packaging provides the finishing touch.
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The specifications of this Brass Coin are:
Country: Belgium; Year of Coin issue: 2023; Metal Composition: Brass; Weight: 10.50 grams; Diameter/Size: 25.65 mm; Coin Quality: Brilliant Uncirculated; Mintage:30,000 pieces; Designer: Iris Bruijns
The Obverse and Reverse of the Coin placed in a coincard presentation.
The coincard in which the coin is encased shows elements of the bicycle and bicycles in various environments in a graphic and colourful way.
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