Short Story :: Hot Like Johnny
Red was a D.C. bicycle courier, and he missed the honking. He missed it, but he did not mourn it. He swept through black and blue cars, a lazy blur that let his hips loll their way through heavy traffic.
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Letter From New Orleans #2
As I was returning the beautiful red bike
that my friend Kristen had
generously offered for my use while I was in refugee mode in Cleveland
Ohio, I was thinking about the many bikes we will find in dumps and on
the sides of roads around the flooded areas back home. READ MORE...
The Ditty Bops
Amanda and Abby of The Ditty Bops...are they just too talented for their own good?
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Freedom To Be, Freedom To Ride
Senator Jim Elliott from the red state of
Montana is no fan of cyclists, so why is he concerned about whats
going on with Critical Mass in in NYC ? And why he thinks every citizen should be too. Find out what got this
cowboy mad enough to write an article for CICLE.org
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Back 2 Back Bicycle Bonanza L.A. Weekend
Recap On:: The Bicycle Kitchen Costumeball Benefit
and the Choppercabras Horrorcycle Club Halloween Ride.
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Rider Cap Throws Bicycle Tour Promoters
Bicycle tour promoters say they will be hamstrung by a new Colorado State Patrol directive that limits organized bicycle events to 2,500 riders. READ MORE...
Transport for London Helps Businesses to Join London's Transport Revolution
With cycle journeys doubling, and more commuters looking for an alternative to the car, Transport for London (TfL) is launching a range of initiatives to help businesses save money, free up their car parking spaces and help their employees to find better ways of getting to work. READ MORE...
Bike Kill 2004
Check out this video short documenting some of the bike madness at the Bike Kill 2004 bike bash in Brooklyn, NY. READ MORE...
Recycling Bikes, Building Good Will
"We just put a sign out 'FREE BIKES,'" said Erin Briggs as she stood in a garage workshop strung with Yule lights and filled with bicycles from floor to ceiling. READ MORE...
'Tis the Season for Giving
Fuji and SE Bikes, the two brands that comprise Advanced Sports, Inc., have committed to bike donations from Southeast Asia to the Gulf Coast to 48 of the 50 United States and Canada. READ MORE...
He Trades Palette for Pedals
Acclaimed Brooklyn artist Lee Quiρones, who got his start painting graffiti on subway cars, has chosen a bicycle to make his latest statement. READ MORE...Battery-Powered Bicycles Offered to Tourists at Cambodia's Angkor Temples
Tourists exploring Cambodia's sprawling Angkor temple complex can now do so on battery-powered bicycles that have been introduced in a bid to cut down on pollution, officials said. READ MORE...
Critical Mass London: November Report
London Critical Massers brave the cold and the cops to circle Parliament square, and also dedicate one minute of 'bike high' silence to the late cyclist Harriet Tory. READ MORE...
NYC Critical Mass Swamped by Cops - Only 3 Arrests
At 7pm chilly Union Square North it seemed that the scooters cops, 'undercover' bikepigs, and 'community affairs' cops almost out numbered the 30 or so critical massers and legal observers. READ MORE...
Bikes Belong Awards $26,400 in Grants
Bikes Belong will award $26,400 in grants this month to four innovative bicycling projects. The trails and programs supported by these grants will increase opportunities for urban riding and promote cycling safety. READ MORE...
Nobody Bikes in L.A. : But they'd be a lot happier if they did.
A few months ago, I decided to try the absurd: I would start commuting the four miles to my office on a bike. In Los Angeles! I'd like to say it was environmental awareness or the high price of gas or even the desperate need to get more exercise... READ MORE...
The Bicycle Diaries
Is it possible to live in America without a car? Uh, sort of. READ MORE...
Rare Dunes Dulldozed For Bike Path
Some of the last sand dunes on Adelaide's beaches are being bulldozed - for a cycling path designed to showcase the metropolitan coastline. READ MORE...
Anchorage's Winter Cyclists get Creative for Commuting
Several mornings a week, Jim Carden bundles up, pulls on sealskin gloves, straps on his headlamp and takes off down Lake Otis Parkway to work -- on his bicycle. READ MORE...
He Prefers his Bicycle to Me!
Okay, this doesn't exactly qualify as news or a headline that relates to bike advocacy or sustainabiltiy... but... well what can we say... we couldn't resist this one. READ MORE...
Driving the argument home
A campaign is under way to lower speed limits to 20mph in urban areas, but what's going to make drivers slow down? A bossy road sign, a hump in the road or a three-piece suite parked in the road? READ MORE...
City Workers Can't Keep Their Motors Running
Portlanders should soon see fewer city-owned trucks and cars parked with their engines running. The City Council unanimously approved an anti-idling policy Monday night that some say should apply to all privately owned vehicles, too.
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Interview: Paul Steely White, Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives
Today 86% of Manhattan-bound commuters manage to travel without a
private car, yet in terms of everything from street design to traffic
enforcement, our city is still catering to that 14% who drives.
Free Refurbished Bikes For SoBay Homeless
Dozens of homeless people living Santa Clara County will get reconditioned bicycles Monday thanks to the Cycle ReCyclery, a program developed by a 17-year-old Los Gatos high school senior. READ MORE...
Recycled Bikes Will get New Homes
For the first time in three years, Citiparks sponsored its "Recycle-A-Cyle" donation drive to provide refurbished bicycles to needy children during the holidays. READ MORE...
Davis to Receive Award for Bicycling
The city of Davis will be presented with a platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community Award at 7 p.m. today at a special joint meeting of the Davis City Council and the Davis Bicycle Advisory Commission. READ MORE...
Bush Takes Bike Tour in China, Meets with Jintao
US President George W. Bush, known for his passion for bike riding, visited the Chinese capital Beijing as guest of Chinese President Hu Jintao, and took a ride with the national bicycle team as they trained in preparation for the 2008 Olympiad to be held in China. READ MORE...
Rise in Bike Deaths Gives Edge to Clash Over Cycling in New York
Jen Shao, the immigrant owner of a Chinatown souvenir shop, wasn't trying to make a political statement as she pedaled her bicycle through downtown Manhattan two months ago. The 65-year-old woman biked, her family told reporters, because she found it easier than walking. READ MORE...
Euro-style Plan for Bicycle City
BICYCLE super-stations and key changes to traffic flows are part of a controversial $10 million plan to bring European-style commuting to Melbourne. READ MORE...
Commentary: We All Pay for Congestion
Car-dependent motorists grow more fed up each day with the ever-increasing level of traffic congestion on local streets and freeways. Congestion is frustrating and represents loss of time and money; however, its actually the symptom of a successful, active region. Active, vital cities have always been congested, but there is much we can do to reduce the need to be stuck in congestion. READ MORE...
Bikes Sought for Storm Evacuees
Austin bike shops and organizations are seeking bike donations for hurricane evacuees. READ MORE...
Cycling Advocate Dies on Bike Trip
A Berkeley man who was riding his bicycle to Santa Barbara to celebrate his 50th birthday with friends was found unconscious on a Woodside road Sunday afternoon and later died, authorities said. READ MORE...L.A. is Once Again the Nation's Smog Capital
The greater Los Angeles region shoved aside Houston and the San Joaquin Valley as the national smog capital in 2005, despite having cleaner air this year than last, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Looks like we got more ridin' to do... READ MORE...Are Portland Police Ticketing Bicyclists More Often than Motorists?
Police staked out an intersection Wednesday in southeast Portland where cars and bicycles merge. As Ley Garnett reports, police wrote a number of citations mostly to bike riders. READ MORE...The War Against the Car
A few years ago, I made a presentation to my second-grader's social studies class, asking the kids what was the worst invention in history. I was shocked when a number of them answered "the car." When I asked why, they replied that cars destroy the environment.Another irritating article by an ill informed conservitive making some lame arguments based on anecdotal examples.
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Purdue Bicycle Design Named a Top Invention of 2005
A new bicycle design developed at Purdue University is being featured
in this week's Time Magazine as one of the nation's top 25 inventions
for 2005. READ MORE...
MPs Block Attempt to Curb Wayward Pedicabs
For weary tourists they offer an exciting, and alternative, trip around the capital. But to the aggrieved authorities, pedicab cyclists are the outlaws of the West End - riding roughshod over parking and driving regulations. READ MORE...
'Separate Lies': A mannered approach to guilt, responsibility
The new film 'Separate Lies' uses the event of a fatal hit and run bicycle accident as a device to explore issues of responsibility and ethics. READ MORE...
Vicious Cycle
Laws against electric bicycles are the latest step in China's move towards a car culture, fuelling fears of highway chaos and an energy and pollution crisis, writes Mark O'Neill. READ MORE...
California Proposition 65 Draws Attention to Bike Cable Housing
Mateel Environmental Justice Foundations claim that cable housing on bikes from a variety of suppliers are in violation of Californias Proposition 65 has the states retailers paying more attention to cable housing. READ MORE...
Commuting by bike? Cycle through your options first
Driving a bicycle to work can save plenty in the long run. READ MORE...
Florida Ranks No. 1 for Bicycle Deaths
More bicyclists died in Florida than in any other state in 2004. 122 riders died in crashes with vehicles last year.
Robert Hanks: The Cycling Column
The battle between cyclists and cars can be solved by a few rules
Fatalities Test City's Bike Rep
Three bicyclists have been killed on city streets so far this year, two more than in 2004, which may complicate Tucson's bid to boost its reputation as a bicycle-friendly community. READ MORE...
Riders Donate Bicycles to Displaced N.O. Residents, Students
Bicycle riders in Boulder and Seattle have collected hundreds of bicycles for shipment to Baton Rouge to be used by college students displaced by Hurricane Katrina and residents of Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer parks. READ MORE...
Cyclist's Round-the-World Trip Ends
A British adventurer crossed the English Channel Thursday after a four-year charity bicycle ride that took him through 60 countries and five continents. READ MORE...
Tainan man rides around his two story bicycle
Each day, Chang rides around on what looks like a two-story bicycle. Wherever he rides on his bike, he gets strange looks, but Chang does not mind. Given his unique bicycle, Chang has already become quite well known in Tainan City and friends are telling anecdotes about him. READ MORE...
LED Bike Pedal Generates Own Power
Non battery-dependant bicycle pedal light operates LED lights automatically when ridden. READ MORE...
Pedal Power 'The Way'
WITH fuel prices skyrocketing, more people are looking for cheaper means of transport and increasingly find the solution in bicycles. READ MORE...
Bicycle boom pushes Zimbabwe inflation to 411 pct
The main culprit behind the higher annual increase was prices for bicycles, which climbed by 1,838 percent from October 2004. READ MORE...
Ten-Mile Stretch of Highway 2 Closed to All but Bicycles, Wildlife
WRIGHTWOOD -- A 10-mile stretch of Highway 2, closed due to weather-spawned landslides in October 2004, has been transformed from a once busy, scenic road meandering through the Angeles National Forest into a peaceful dead-end nature preserve. READ MORE...
Bicycle Riding Bear Pedals Back to Montana
Listen to the Onion Radio News audio report right here. READ MORE...
Uma Just Cannot Handle It
Now for some good ol' celebrity bike gossip.
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Suppliers Charged With Violating California Proposition 65
Fourteen bicyclesuppliers have been charged with violating Proposition 65 under theCalifornia Health and Safety Code. READ MORE...
Proselytizer for Pedaling Acts on His Words
It might seem like a loopy proposition, but Mr. de Jong, a Dutch-born millionaire, real estate developer and cycling maniac, is on a worldwide crusade to get industrialized man out of his car and onto the saddle seat. READ MORE...
GO Bikestation Long Beach!
Bikestation Long Beach just re-opened last Friday on November 4, 2005. READ MORE...
Bicyclist with Burnt Car
A woman on a bicycle passes by a burnt car on Quitzow street in Berlin
November 7, 2005. READ MORE...
FKI Campaigns for Bicycle Commuting to Save Energy
The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), a lobby of big businesses, asked its member companies to encourage their employees to commute by bicycle as part of a campaign to conserve energy. READ MORE...
Get on your bike - our weather's not that bad
PEOPLE WHO rule out cycling to work because they might get rained on are pessimists whose view of the weather is inaccurate, according to Dublin's Director of Traffic. READ MORE...
I Remember my $10 Bicycle
I remember my $10 bicycle. In 1960, I was always borrowing bikes from my schoolmates to be able to go home to eat lunch. I needed to get home fast, since it was five whole blocks to go home for lunch each day from Juan Linn School. READ MORE...
The Bicycle Thief: It's Not Who You Think
When Ms. Wang, a soft-spoken 28-year-old with wispy black hair, emerged from the station at 8 p.m., she saw that her black Diamondback bicycle had vanished. "I thought it was stolen," she said. "A guy standing there heard me make a phone call to my friend to say that my bike was gone, and he said the police had come by and clipped it." READ MORE...
Bike the Strike: Philadelphia's Answer to Transit Nightmare
Fuji Bicycles' hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is in the middle of a public transit strike. As part of a two-part promotion, Fuji hit the airwaves with a well-timed commercial touting 10% off retail price at local dealers during the strike. Turn up your volume and listen to the ad. READ MORE...
Japanese Robot Can Ride a Bike
The new Japanese robot, dubbed Murata Boy, weighs 11 pounds and is 20 inches high. Murata Boy keeps its balance by changing the rotation speed of a disc-shaped weight, and can successfully ride a bicycle on and stop on an inch-wide balance beam. READ MORE...
RideArc - Real Deals & Wannabees
I just rode home from RideArc, night bike ride put on by some cool folks from SCI-Arc, which takes place every first Friday of the month. The theme for this ride was "Real Deals & Wannabees." READ MORE...
Bicycling in L.A. Is Wheely Scary
Chris Ayres, the L.A. correspondent for the Times of London, makes no secret of his disdain for bicyclists. READ MORE...
Passive Driving
Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year READ MORE...
Town's Future Linked to Cycling
A Cumbrian town could become a centre for cycling, and provide an alternative start to the Sea to Sea (C2C) cycle route, under new plans READ MORE...
BSU goes green at Campus Sustainability Day
Boise State students and faculty join hundreds of other campuses in environmentally friendly conference READ MORE...
Travel's No Sweat in Netherlands
The Dutch infrastructure and culture embrace the bicycle, rain or shine READ MORE...
The Great Transit Race
The Daily News, employing its own version of the Great Race, yesterday sent off six reporters to discover the best and fastest way to get from one point to another in a city stricken by the Great Transit Strike READ MORE...
Riders Report Back: World Can't Wait L.A.
From the C.I.C.L.E. blogs :: "As we departed, a news media camera (I believe KTTV channel 11) recorded our Mass exodus for the 10 oclock news. I rode straight at the camera, giving it my meanest look, steering away at the last minute" READ MORE...
Long Road Ahead
Scientist plans lengthy bike trek to warn about global warming READ MORE...
Reubens Returns to Pee Wee
Paul scripts two new adventures for his bike-loving alter ego READ MORE...
On Your Bike -- North Korea Makes Virtue of Necessity
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is urging workers to produce more bicycles to cope with the lack of transport, improve people's health and prevent pollution just days after the country's first bike factory opened. OK this dictator is more on the ball then our dictator...GW wake up!
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San Louis Obispo Named Rest stop in State Bicycle Race
The city is one of 10 stops for the first Tour of California, modeled after the Tour de France and set for February. READ MORE...
Steam Powered Bicycle
About 1989, I obtained a 1949 VιloSoleX premier type frame in
a derelict and red rusted condition, and gradually set about restoring
it, building new wheels, etc, to form the basis of the steam
bike. READ MORE...
