Commercial Appeal.com: Sharing bike skills can solve social ills
In mid-August, more than 200 cyclists crowded into the Pittsburgh Filmmakers School for the fourth annual Bike! Bike! Community Bicycle Conference. The diverse collection of cyclists represented 62 bike shops from three continents, and the international flavor couldn’t distract from the unifying goal of each group: [...]

New York Observer: The Spokes-Models
Get a Helmet, Morning Glory! Beautiful—SCREEECH!—Roadkill! Who Are These Schwinn-Pumping, Flower-Shlepping Sirens? Where Do Gisele, Naomi and Chloë Think They Are? Shropshire?
Oh, carefree bicycle nymph, what thrilling secrets do your tires conceal? This anonymous beauty coasts down Broadway.
On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon, Vikki Eichmann was striding through the Union Square [...]

The Gazette: Hop on a cool cruiser for a relaxing ride – Bicycles without shocks and gears gain ground
Deirda Schaneman loves bikes but she is never going to ride in the Tour de France. “I’m not what you’d call a speedy person. And I don’t like how most bikes make you sit hunched over,” she [...]

Detroit Free Press: Cycling in freedom’s footsteps on the Underground Railroad route
The sun is burning down. I’m partway through a five-day ride tracing the path our enslaved ancestors took, risking their lives seeking freedom. As soon as I learned the Adventure Cycling Association was sponsoring a bicycle tour that followed the route of the Underground [...]

Star Tribune: Cities’ dueling bicycle events create some challenges
More than fun is riding on the outcomes of parkway bike tours scheduled for successive weekends in St. Paul and Minneapolis. When the first Minneapolis parkway bike tour was scheduled for a week after the 13th pedaling of the St. Paul Classic, Mary Morse [...]

Philadelphia Inquirer: Make way for the bicycles
No death cabs – for Cutie, or anyone else. No trucks, no buses. No roaring demon motorcycles barreling down behind you. For a few sublime hours Sunday morning it will be possible to ride your bike along many of Center City’s major arteries – the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, [...]

BBC Online: Massive crowds due at bike event
A car share scheme and new cycleway have been created in a bid to cut congestion and pollution at a major mountain bike contest. About 40,000 people are expected to attend six days of competitions around Fort William, starting on Tuesday. It is the first time the UCI [...]

International Herald Tribune: In Tokyo, bikewear for on and off the road
Despite their love affair with the automobile and motorbike, Tokyoites have never lost their love for the bicycle. Cyclists are on every street and crossroads in the city, braving traffic, bad weather and car fumes.
Many people now ride distances of 30 kilometers, or 18 [...]

Russia Today: UK diplomats cycle to war memorials
Staff at the British Embassy in Moscow have begun a 10-day cycling tour of war memorials in Russia. The 3-man team will visit monuments in eleven cities from St Petersburg to Volgograd to pay tribute to those who fought and died in World War Two. The trip [...]

Belfast Telegraph Local Heroes – Cycling: On your bike
Read all about it – Andrew’s on hunt for cycling success It’s not that unusual for a teenage boy to have a paper round to get a little extra cash. What is out of the ordinary, however, is for that job to be used as [...]