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"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." - Ernest Hemingway, By-Line

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Pasadena Bicycle Master Plan Open Meeting : October 1, 6:30pm

Ryan Snyder Associates, consultant, will provide a progress report on the development of the City’s new Bicycle Master Plan. READ MORE...

Santa Monica, Go for Gold!

There’s some controversy brewing lately over just how bike-friendly the city of Santa Monica is. Last May, Santa Monica received a bronze level Bike Friendly City recognition from the League of American Bicyclists (LAB). Some of our westside bicyclist friends have started a petition to revoke Santa Monica’s award.

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C.I.C.L.E. Launches Membership Program: Become a Member Today!

You love what we do! You know how hard C.I.C.L.E. has been working to increase and diversify the transportation bicycling community in the L.A. region. Now you can help keep us going long and strong by becoming a member today!

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Smokey the Air: Tips to keep your lungs happy

L.A. summer smog is bad enough, but throw a giant ash plume into the mix, and it’s time to take a serious look at keeping your lungs happy.

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Bicycle Commuting

I may not be a movie star, best-selling author, or billionaire when I grow up, but one thing I will be known for, at least locally, is commuting by bicycle.

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You'd Look Sweet on the Front Seat of a Tandem Made for... R2D2

Many a cyclist has wished for a bit of extra help when tackling strenuous hills. Now one inventor has hit on the answer... a cycling robot.

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Bicycle Cellar: Storage, Showers, Safety

You arrive at work and, climbing sweatily off your bike, you look for a safe place to lock it up for the day, somewhere that it will hopefully still be when you want to go home.

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Cash for clunkers, bicycle edition

It's a new approach to economic stimulus: pedal power.

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Sram recalls bicycle chains with connectors that can crack

About 24,000 Sram 10-Speed bicycle chains with PowerLock connector links are being recalled by Sram, a Chicago bicycle parts maker, because the connectors are brittle and can crack, allowing the chain to separate from the bicycle and causing the rider to fall.

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Whose Bike Are You Wearing?

NEARLY every morning, Renaud Dutreil, the chairman of the North American unit of the luxury and fashion conglomerate LVMH rides to his Midtown office on a black Gazelle, a stylish Dutch commuter bicycle.

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Barcelona by bike, train and car

By metro, tram, bus, bike, car or on foot, taking in the streetscapes, panoramas and often-startling architecture of Barcelona can make for a full itinerary.

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Parents, Breathe Easy: New Bike Grows With Children

The genius behind the Kilobike is that while they're between the ages of 6 and 12, the bike will grow with them.

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Confessions of a bicycle hoarder

Documentary set to air on CBC provides a glimpse into the daily life of Toronto's most notorious bike repairman and alleged thief

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Heliotrope-Melrose

In the shadow of Los Angeles City College, the intersection of Heliotrope Drive and Melrose Avenue boasts a collegiate, counterculture vibe, complete with avid bicycle activists, a smoke shop, tattoo parlor and a splash of colorful, graffiti-style murals.

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There Are 9 Million (Stolen) Bicycles" in Beijing

It's one of the most beautiful sights in China's capital: flocks of bicycle riders all moving in tandem through the city's wide boulevards.

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Cross-country ride propels search for 'simple life' in U.S.

A San Francisco couple's 12,000-mile bicycle tour around the country has connected them to a simpler life.

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Commuting conspiracy theory of the week: Portland just makes up those bike numbers, right?

All kinds of solid and traceable evidence shows that bicycling is an increasingly mainstream mode of transportation in Portland.

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Family Riding One Bicycle 7,000 Miles to Alaska

A family is pedaling 7,000 miles together on two wheels and Tuesday made a stop in Charleston.

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Riding Your Bike is Cool Again

Vintage inspired bicycles launch in New York, NY.

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Flying Pigeon LA peddles bike culture north of downtown

On the third Sunday of each month, a dozen or so people pedal out of Highland Park atop steel-frame bikes straight out of the Chinese Cultural Revolution or on more luxurious Dutch cruisers -- all in search of dumplings.

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Are airbags coming to bicycles - motorycles have airbags so why not bik

In 1989 the air bags for cars bill passed. In 2007 a Hong Kong company began testing on air bags for bicycles.

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