Cycling Promotion Fund Media Release: Bicycles extend sales lead on cars – record year hits nearly 1.3 million Bicycles have extended their sales lead over cars for 2006, with Australian bike sales hitting a new record of almost 1.3 million while car sales declined from the previous year. Bicycle sales in Australia totalled 1,273,781 for [...]

Daily Telegraph: Petrol price promotes pedal power Bicycle sales outpaced vehicle sales in 2006 as more people turned to pedal-power to cut petrol bills. The Cycling Promotion Fund (CPF), Australia’s peak bicycle promotion group, said 1,273,781 new bikes were sold last year, well ahead of the 962,521 new cars and trucks sold. CPF spokesman Ian [...]

Courier Mail: Cyclist proud to be ‘eccentric’ Of the tens of thousands of barmy Englishman to have descended on Australian shores in recent months, Joff Summerfield might be the barmiest. The 39-year-old Londoner isn’t even here for the cricket. Mr Summerfield is 1700km into his Australian leg of an around the world tour on one [...]

KGMB9: Cyclists Ecstatic About New Amendment – 10 November, 2006 A new amendment mandates that the city make it a priority to transform Honolulu into a bicycle and pedestrian friendly city. Whether they are Democrats or Republicans, bicyclists in Hawaii are celebrating an election victory. Of those who voted in the General Election, 72 percent [...]

Streetsblog: Speaker Quinn “Pleased” With NYPD’s New Biking Restrictions – 19 October, 2006 Despite being slapped down in court a couple of times now, the NYPD is proposing yet another set of rules to restrict public gatherings aimed primarily at the bicyclists who meet for the monthly Critical Mass ride. According to yesterday’s Times: The [...]

News: SA’s most dangerous drivers to face “life” – 30 July, 2006 Hon Michael Atkinson MP, Attorney-General Minister for Justice Minister for Multicultural Affairs: New laws come into force today that could see some of South Australia’s most dangerous drivers facing life in prison for dangerous driving and hit-run offences. The Rann Government is cracking [...]