Cyprus Mail: Bicycle lanes: progress halted by legal loopholes
Cyclists in Cyprus are facing a multitude of obstacles, with little help from government bodies despite the obvious environmental advantages of increasing traffic on two wheels. On Thursday, the Commissioner for the Environment, Charalambos Theopemotou, met with Andis Hadjivassiliou, the president of Podilatokinisis, an organisation for […]

Cycling Promotion Fund: Vote 4 Cycling
Bicycles in this Election
In the second half of 2007, the people of Australia will be asked to elect a new Commonwealth Government. Historically, there has been little federal support for cycling, relative to state and local contributions.With the converging issues of climate change, spiralling fuel costs, an obesity epidemic and […]

VRP.net: Sanders, Welch support tax break for bicycling to work
(Host) Congress is debating policies that can guide the nation out of an energy crunch. Vermont lawmakers say a good start is to pedal to work. VPR’s Evelyn Lombardo has the story from Capitol Hill.(Lombardo) Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders sponsored a bill to give bicyclists […]

Democrat and Chronicle.com: Region to make way for bicycles
Like many Rochesterians, Peter LaDolce starts his morning with a 15-minute commute. Unlike most, he makes the journey by bicycle. “If it rains, I’ll still be riding,” said LaDolce, who bikes about 3.5 miles from his Browncroft Boulevard home to his job at Barkstrom & LaCroix Architects […]

Cebu Daily News: Challenge for cycling
I was going to write about something else when I received e-mail from our publisher and chief editor, Eileen Mangubat. She wrote: “Here is something you might be interested in.” That something was a news item from the Associated Press with the head: “Cycling gains ground in NYC amid […]

China Daily: China to prevent bike theft through numbering system
Every bike produced in China will have a number engraved on it to deter thieves and help trace it if it is stolen. All bike manufacturers in China will have to number their products and print the numbers on them from December 1, to […]

Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Honolulu awarded for being bicycle-friendly
The League of American Bicyclists has awarded Honolulu an honorable mention in its Bicycle Friendly Community program. Honolulu is one of 24 cities and counties that applied for first-time Bicycle Friendly Community designation in the latest round of evaluation. Seven other communities, including Tampa, Fla., and Los Angeles, […]

EV Living.com: Tempe named bicycle-friendly community
The League of American Bicyclists designated Tempe a Silver-Level Bicycle-Friendly Community Award winner. Tempe is one of 70 communities around the United States being recognized for providing safe accommodations and facilities for bicyclists and encouraging residents to bike for transportation and recreation. The League of American Bicyclists examined traffic […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

Boulder Daily Camera: Boulder bike summit aiming high - Gathering focuses on the future of cycling in Boulder
Suppose you fall asleep and don’t wake up for 20 years. When you finally snap out of your slumber, Time Magazine has done a cover story titled, “Boulder: America’s Best Bicycle City.” What would the article look like? […]

Associated Content.com: Walking and Bicycling to School Program Announced by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer - $32 Million Given to Promote Walking and Bicycling to School
According to the New York State website, Governor Eliot Spitzer has launched a new initiative that will supply $32.1 million in federal funding to promote walking and bicycling to school.
The […]

Cadillac News: Local business promotes bicycle safety
Whenever sisters Emily and Madison Hoffman take their bikes for a ride around Lake City, they never leave home without their bicycle helmets. The girls, 9 and 7 years old respectively, said they would never think to get on their bikes without a helmet. “It is always […]

NJ.com: A touch of illumination for nighttime bicyclists
The township police and a nonprofit organization that assists Latinos are working together to provide lights to people who ride bicycles after dark. The police department will be distributing letters in Spanish to nighttime bike riders who lack lights, encouraging them to pick up free front and […]

Oxford Mail: £5 cycle helmets prove a hit
There is just one more week to take advantage of our special cycle helmets campaign. The Oxford Mail has teamed up with Oxford Products, a Witney firm which supplies cycle helmets approved to European safety standards, to offer them for just £5. We have now sold […]

VC Reporter.com: Designated riders
Ventura’s First Annual Bike Summit aims to convince residents that bicycling is the best alternative energy source. If you’ve ever tried to ride home from work in the dark, or tried to navigate the confusing and often dangerous bike routes from the westside to the eastside, you know how hairy biking in […]

This is Nottingham: On the right route for cyclists in city
I find the prospect of cycling in the city centre just too daunting. And I’m not alone. Like me, Coun Emma Dewinton gave up her using her bike shortly after moving to Nottingham.”I think I’m fairly typical of residents who would […]

Bike Radar: UK police: lock your bike or we’ll nick it
Cyclists in the UK have criticised police after they threatened to confiscate unlocked bikes. People living in the city of Worcester have been warned that unsecured bikes they could be removed by officers on patrol. West Mercia police admits it is considering the move, […]