BBC: Olympian crash driver convicted - 30 October, 2006
A hit-and-run driver who knocked an Olympic cyclist off her bicycle has been convicted of motoring offences. Emma Davies-Jones, who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Athens games, was knocked off her bike in a cycle lane in Manchester in October 2005. She fell on to the […]

Northumberland Today: Cyclists call for a greener approach - 30 November, 2006
Cyclists have launched a petition for a cycle track to be put in place between Alnwick and Alnmouth. Avid cyclists are calling for the route to connect Alnmouth station with the town, enabling commuters and keen cyclists to abandon their cars in favour of […]

Camden New Journal: Decision delayed in row over cycle paths - 30 November, 2006
A decision on whether to allow more cycle paths on Hampstead Heath has been postponed until November next year. Bob Hall, chairman of the Heath’s management committee, made the announcement at a packed, and occasionally heated, public debate on the subject […]

San Francisco Chronicle: Cyclists’ trail-rail vision not over yet - 30 November, 2006
Despite defeat, Sonoma-Marin ballot measure likely to return. At times, bikes seem a much smarter way for rubber to meet the road. As morning commuters jammed highways entering downtown Santa Rosa, I sailed by. I was pedaling down the Joe Rodota […]

News Gazette: Woman is sentenced for bicyclist’s death - 30 November, 2006
Jennifer Stark wiped away tears and nodded that she understood the maximum sentence a Champaign County judge gave her Wednesday for improper lane usage. The 19-year-old Urbana woman appeared in court, flanked by her parents, to plead guilty to a petty offense and be […]

North West Evening Mail: Wheel meet again
A sea of bicycles was once a common sight as shipyard workers made their way to the shipyard. Thousands of bikes used to flood across Michaelson Road Bridge during the 1950s. At present, 300 workers cycle to Barrow shipyard. But pedal power […]

Press Release: Climate Defence Network - Climate Change largely ignored by draft strategy
A broad coalition of groups today joined with Option3 to strongly criticise the draft Regional Land Transport Strategy, a summary of which is currently being sent to households across the region. Climate Defence Network, Cycle Aware Wellington, ECO, Heartbeat Wellington, Living […]

Daily Telegraph Editorial: Cycling right must be weighed
The Critical Mass cyclists who organised themselves into a self-righteous and disruptive phalanx on the Harbour Bridge on Friday are correct, of course. Strenuous physical exercise such as pedalling a pushbike has been shown to be of benefit in the treatment of a range of diseases associated with […]

Alligator Online: Bike blues - Cyclists shouldn’t be second-class citizens - 29 November, 2006
There are two kinds of people in Gainesville - the ones who drive cars and the ones who ride bikes. The first group cruises around town in climate-controlled comfort, listening to the crappy indie band of the moment in full, rich surround […]

Daily Telegraph: Free ride for ratbags - 29 November, 2006
The cycling protesters who take pride in plunging city traffic into chaos encourage their members to ignore road rules and defy police. Despite their disregard for the law and a public backlash against two-wheeled road hogs, police have vowed to continue to sanction the monthly traffic […]

Alligator Online: The Long and Winding Road - Florida ranks highest in nation for bicycle deaths - 28 November, 2006
UF graduate student Carmen Valero-Aracama, 32, has a hard time getting her 1-year-old son, Luca, to lay down for the night. She talks to him and watches TV with him, but she says sometimes he’s […]

On Saturday 25th November 2006, the Daily Telegraph published Anita Quigley’s article “This disturbing cycle is just a critical mess“In the second paragraph, Quigley makes this following remark:
“It has never occurred to me it might matter to drivers what a cyclist wears because, clothed or naked, with a helmet or not, all cyclists in […]

The Sun News: Roads Unsafe: The Sun News should urge bicycle use - 27 November, 2006
After reading “Pump iron, not gas; obesity drags down mileage,” an Oct. 26 report, I felt compelled to express concern about the irony in the suggestion that if people exercised more, we would pay less for gas. It seems that […]

Independent Record: Missoula to offer free lights to unlit bicyclists - 26 November, 2006
The death of a bicyclist after dark here last month has sparked a new city effort to handout free bike light sets to cyclists caught without them at night. Police officers will be distributing 150 of the light sets — free of […]

Chris Harris (NSW Greens): Journalist incites aggression towards people riding bikes
Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has called on journalist Anita Quigley to retract her comments about her ‘desire to swerve towards’ cyclists’ reported in today’s Daily Telegraph.Quigley in her Daily Telegraph column writes “all cyclists in the city are irritating and I find bring on an […]

Daily Telegraph: Chain gang chokes city - 25 November, 2006
Berks on bikes ruined last night for thousands of people - by causing maximum traffic gridlock in Sydney. Peak-hour motorists were delayed by more than an hour as several hundred cycling activists -dubbed Critical Mass - blocked the city’s streets and cut off the Harbour Bridge […]

Townsville Bulletin: Team go off road - 23 November, 2006

The North Queensland Cowboys have moved their intensive bike training off the streets and into the protected confines of Townsville’s velodrome for the first time. Coaching staff say they had no choice if they wanted to protect the well-being of their star athletes.

Local cyclists […]

Peoples Daily Online: Bring back cycle lanes For whom do we build a road in a city? - 22 November, 2006
This seemingly undisputable question becomes disputable when nearly 90 per cent of the more than 4,000 surveyed on the Internet believe that the right of cyclists has been either ignored or infringed upon in the […]

Shanghai Daily: Young cyclists told to turn off phones, MP3s - 22 November, 2006
Young bike riders should turn off their MP3 players, stay off the sidewalk and stop chatting on the phone while they are cycling, police told […]

The Age: Russia gets tough on drunk cyclists - 22 November, 2006
Police chiefs in southern Russia said on Tuesday they want cyclists to pass a compulsory driving test after a spate of crashes involving drunken riders. “Accidents involving bicyclists most often happen because the driver of the cycle is in an inebriated state, or is […]