Message from Ray: Vicki Porter Awareness Ride
AWESOME! This is what 1000 Riders looks like! Photos: Carolyn Dare, Barrier Reef Apex Club. Can people please send photos they have to rayAThelpvicki.org. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it. My email box is very large, send as many [...]

Bicycle Federation of Australia: e-News – September 2007

Federal Election Campaign developments
Bike Fleets
London follows Oz cities
Vote4Cycling website
Climate Change Advert
Cycling Training
Donations to the BFA
Australian Bicycle Council
BFA meeting

Federal Election Campaign developments
During last week’s Parliamentary sittings, likely to be the last before the election, the BFA’s Peter Strang and Cycling [...]

The Brooklyn Rail: A Future on Two Wheels – Is Bike-Sharing Possible in New York?
On a recent trip to Paris, I noticed with curiosity the rows of perfectly spaced, knee-high gray posts that had popped up intermittently throughout the city, just off the curbs. The next day, bicycles appeared next to each post, and representatives [...]

York Press: Community devastated by bike tragedy
Shocked friends and colleagues are struggling to come to terms with the sudden death of a larger-than-life character who was killed in a road accident on Tuesday. Jeannie Tolson, 49, of West Haddlesey, near Selby, died yesterday morning from injuries sustained when she was knocked from her bike [...]

University Daily Kansan: Geared for change
Subversive cyclists want a piece of the street and to change your mind about grassroots traffic. Nearly 100 bicycles, some lacking brakes, others modified and accessorized, have gathered in front of Wescoe Beach. None of their riders are wearing spandex suits. Someone is in a cow costume. [...]

Queens Ledger: Cyclist’s Death Inspires PSAs
The death of an avid Greenpoint bicyclist has inspired a new safety campaign urging drivers to be aware that they share the road with bikes. Liz Byrne was 45 years old when she was hit by a truck and killed in September of 2005 at the intersection of Kent Avenue [...]

The Age: Think differently and connect
There is no doubt that 21st-century urban living presents us with some real challenges. Getting enough physical activity into our lives as our girths grow and traffic congestion infuriates us. Controlling levels of depression and anxiety, as isolation and work and life demands weigh heavily on us. And worrying about [...]

The China Post: Mayor Hau leads bicycle tour in Car Free Day
To mark Saturday’s Taipei Car Free Day, city mayor Hau Lung-bin will lead a bicycle tour from the Taipei County Government in Panchiao to Taipei City Hall. The event was organized to stimulate public awareness about environmental protection and join the international campaign to [...]

Raise the Hammer: Is Bicycling Safe?
If you follow the rules of the road and ride carefully, cycling is actually much safer than driving.
Raise the Hammer promotes cycling as a great transportation choice. It’s cleaner and healthier than driving, producing zero emissions and achieving the equivalent of 595 km/l (1,400 mpg) in fuel economy.
Nevertheless, would-be cyclists [...]

Manawatu Standard: On yer bike’s better than off it
Most weekends turn up a quota of carnage. Dead and smashed bodies are pulled from mangled car bodies writes deputy editor Ewan Sargent in an editorial. More often than not we have a picture of some such happening locally in Monday’s newspaper. If the graphic stories [...]