60 million Americans bicycle for recreation, ranking it #2 behind only wildlife viewing…
Bicycling generates 1.1 million jobs, ranking it #2 behind only camping…
https://www.outdoorindustry.org/pdf/FinalOutdoorRecreationReportEC.pdf
Here are the latest outdoor industry data on bicycling, with road bicycling and mountain biking as subcategories of analysis:
https://www.outdoorindustryfoundation.org/pdf/ParticipationStudy2006Bicycling.pdf
2006 Outdoor Recreation State of the Industry Report:
https://www.outdoorindustry.org/pdf/SOI/SOI.pdf
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