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, [...]