The Gazette: Cyclists call for link with Laval: 12,000 signatures. City petitioned to build bike path from Marche Central – 26 September, 2006
Velo Quebec representatives and a sporting goods retailer deposited a petition at Montreal city hall last night asking for a new bicycle path. The petition, with 12,000 signatures, asks the city to build [...]

Guardian Unlimited: Coast to coast and a new-found respect for cyclists – 26 September, 2006
It’s nice to know that approaching your 46th birthday there are parts of your body you have yet to become acquainted with. I spent the weekend with Daley Thompson and 40 other would-be heroes crossing the breadth of England on a [...]

Scotsman.com: Bikes beat the rush in commuter challenge – 25 September, 2006
Cyclists emerged victorious in a battle to find the quickest way to travel into Edinburgh city centre. A “commuter challenge” was staged in the city to find the fastest way to get to work, with bikes winning three of the four races.
The [...]

Star-Telegram – Study: Lanes aid cyclists, motorists – 25 September, 2006
Cyclists ride in the bike lane that runs along Trail Lake Boulevard in Fort Worth near Encanto.
Ideally, 5-foot-wide lanes are preferred for bikes, researchers say. Striping city streets with special bike lanes isn’t just safer for bicyclists. It also helps maintain order among automobiles. [...]

Anchorage Daily News: Bike club peddles idea to ease parking woes – 24 September, 2006
A handful of University of Alaska Anchorage students have an answer to global warming, epidemic obesity, high gas prices and chronically congested campus parking. It started with a used mountain bike, spray painted green and gold and christened “Cyndi” with a [...]

Denver Post: Pedaling with a purpose – Cycling to Work – 24 September, 2006
Commuting by bicycle can help keep you fit, reduce your stress and it saves on fuel costs too. Denver lawyer David Broadwell doesn’t always ride his bike to work. But on days when he does, paradoxically, he arrives feeling a lot fresher [...]

Herald Sun: Fears as bikes put walkers in danger – 24 September, 2006
Hundreds of cyclists speeding at up to three times the legal limit are putting pedestrians at risk in Melbourne. A Sunday Herald Sun survey found all but one cyclist breaking the speed limit at Southbank, narrowly missing walkers on the promenade. One cyclist, clocked [...]

Scotman.com: Rush-hour cycling beats buses, trains and cars – 23 September, 2006A race to find the fastest way through Edinburgh during rush hour yesterday saw bicycles leave other modes of transport trailing. Bikes won out over cars, buses and trains in reaching their destinations in the fastest time from a variety of places around the [...]

SBS: Storyline Australia: After Maeve
Artwork by Maeve, “Cat and Moon” 
In November 2003, ten-year-old Maeve Coughlan died in a pedestrian accident on a cycling trip in Queensland. Maeve’s parents, Robyn, a paediatric emergency physician, and Frank, a social worker, decided to document their journey as a way of honouring Maeve’s creative spirit in their ongoing lives.
Before [...]

Brandon Times: On global tour of joy and pain, he pedals on – 22 September, 2006
In 2001, Yiming Liu left China on the ride of his life, through Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, Riverview … He’s been hungry enough to eat a poisonous fruit, thirsty enough to drink cow’s urine. He’s been hit by a bus [...]