SMH: On your bike – join the happy throng
The Tour de France is no longer a late-night gimmick for Australian Francophiles to watch on television in search of inspiration for their next European vacation. Neither is cycling a sport that Australian fans take up for one month a year to “experience” the pain the Tour [...]

ABC Online: King Street painting wins Sydney art prize
King Street Newtown by Jessica Geron has taken out the City of Villages art prize run by the City of Sydney Council.
A painting depicting a stationary bicycle standing on Newtown’s busy King Street, in Sydney’s south-west, has won the City of Sydney Council’s City of Villages art [...]

San Francisco Chronicle: Bicycle messengers are pedaling uphill against the Internet
Bicycle messengers are not quite an endangered species, but their business is certainly going downhill, yet another victim of the Internet. Like many other companies, including newspapers, messenger services are finding it hard to complete with free and instant. Anyone with a computer, [...]

San Francisco Chronicle: The Zen of Bicycle Maintenance – Can wrenching on bikes and doing good deeds go together?
Everything at the Bike Hut is in flux, everything, it seems, is awaiting a rebirth, a transformation: The red Centurion, with no seat, dangling from a hook along the front wall; the used bikes lined [...]

Spiegel Online: Paris à Bicyclette – Rediscovering the Romance of the Bicycle
The French may love their bicycles, but in Paris, only a courageous minority braves traffic on two wheels. Mayor Bertrand Delanoe wants Parisians to consider looking backward. Yves Montand has a song called “À Bicyclette,” a love song to a woman whose name (“Paulette”) [...]

Vueweekly.com: Local Cyclists Gear up for Bicycle Month – Edmonton’s festival of ‘velo-love’ will set you free on the streets
All around the world, cyclists unite in June. In Edmonton, it’s no different—except we tend to keep our clothes on. Across Europe and South America, in Australia, Japan, Mexico, the US and some Canadian cities—including Vancouver, [...]

The Argus: Brave cyclists get naked to promote greener transport
Cyclists bared all for a naked bike ride through the streets of Brighton and Hove. Almost 200 people threw caution to the wind to ride in various states of undress. A daring 30 or so people cycled as naked as the day they were born. Others [...]

Torontoist: More Ass, Less GasThe World Naked Bike Ride wants to make a point that there are many things more offensive than a bare bum. The indecent exposure is not to some guy’s twig n’ berries, but to our polluted environment.
On Saturday, Toronto was among 70 cities around the world that took a spin au [...]

Diocese of New Westminster: Blessing of the Bicycles and Bicyclists – Friday, June 29, 5pm on the steps of Christ Church Cathedral

The month of June is Bike Month throughout the Lower Mainland. Organized by Better Environmentally Sound Transportation, Bike Month is an opportunity to celebrate the bicycle, the benefits of using it, and the opportunities [...]

Nelson Mail: Naked cyclists decry a bum rap
The vulnerability of cyclists on the road was highlighted in one of the world’s “oldest forms of protest” when 70 riders bared their bodies in Golden Bay on Saturday. Unlike last year, when 200 people signed a petition to try to stop the event, there was no [...]