Moreland Leader: Refugees on the right path
Bicycle mechanic is helping asylum seekers go the distance. Bill Bretherton has been donating bicycles to refugees for four years through his volunteer-run collective, Human Powered Cycles, where he repairs and sells pre-loved and broken bicycles. Last month Bretherton received a $1000 grant from Cycling Promotion to run a […]

The Age: Recycling
A Melbourne man is using the humble push bike to create a greener, fairer world. Kathleen O’Connell reports. Bill Bretherton is living the maxim. No matter how many times you fall off, you have to get back on the bike. Even after four months of your life have disappeared.
Not that the 27-year-old remembers […]

Leelanau News: First ‘bicycle craze’ enjoyed decades ago
Biking is big in Leelanau. But it’s nothing new. At the turn of the 19th century, it was often reported in the Enterprise of people traveling to special events “by wheel.” And a 1903 publication issued by the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce touted the area’s trout streams, […]

ABC Online: Cycling convert says riding saves him time
6 years ago Murray Gomm threw away his car keys and started riding to work. “I just got quite guilty,” he says. “We had two cars and we’d go separately and it just seemed to be all wrong.” He says becoming a commuting cyclist was “a fantastic […]

Anchorage Daily News: Bicycles built for 40-year marriage
The Turnagain Arm cruise was just one more in a quest that has led them to bike beautiful sites in nearly every state. The couple were seeking relief from winter when they traveled in 1992 to Hilton Head Island off the coast of South Carolina. In addition […]

The Age: On yer bike: it’s a message worth recycling
Erin Sievwright, a long-time bike enthusiast who often chooses track suit pants over Lycra shorts, sometimes wonders if she is the most unfashionable cyclist on the road. The 26-year-old, whose love affair with cycling started as a teenager, says she only recently traded in her trainers […]

The Age: Around the world in 13 years
He was hit by a car in Colorado, attacked by a crocodile in Australia, detained as a suspected spy in Egypt and survived illness and periods of despair. Now British adventurer Jason Lewis has finally come home, after completing a 13-year, 74,000-kilometre human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
The […]

AM New York: Music star pushes cycling lifestyle
Envisioning a city where bicycle traffic gets priority over automobiles, singer David Byrne, a longtime city bike commuter, hosted a program Saturday that explored ways to make New York’s streets more like those of bike-friendly Copenhagen. About 35 percent of the workforce in the Danish capital commutes […]

Hovis London Freewheel: On Sunday 23 September, London goes traffic-free
The Hovis London Freewheel – organised by the Mayor of London – is aimed at encouraging more people in London to cycle. London is already experiencing a cycle revolution with the number of cyclists soaring by 83 per cent since 2000, but we want the […]

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 […]

The Hindu: The latest French revolution
The bicycle’s comeback in France represents a willingness to make environmentally and socially sensitive choices. After creating the world’s fastest mode of transport the TGV, the French are now returning to something much more simple — the bicycle (vélo in French). On July 15, 2007, 10,000 public […]

Sacbee.com: Doctor pushes kids to exercise - Pediatrician’s healthy habits led her to start a riverside bike ride
Victoria Akins became a pediatrician because she loved kids and wanted to help them lead healthy lives. She eventually realized there was only so much she could do within traditional boundaries of her profession. Kids were getting […]

Swindon Advertiser: Top marks for cycling teachers
Teacher Geraldine King was determined not to let age stop her cycling 1,000 miles to help a project close to her heart. Geraldine, of Sunnyside Avenue, Swindon, and her colleague from Nylands School, Fiona Chappell, are having a well-earned break after riding their bikes from Land’s End to […]

Duke News: Let’s Ride - Making Duke and Durham more bike friendly
For seven years, Bob Clemen has been commuting to Duke’s Fuqua School of Business – a five-mile trek in heavy traffic through major intersections. Not that unusual, except that Clemen makes this trip by bicycle.“The scariest thing in the world is to have a […]

Mt Shasta Herald: A two-wheeled wonder that benefits the planet
“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.” -John F. Kennedy
How often can a simple, routine, daily activity be transformed into something that benefits the planet, the health of both the individual and others, and the economy- and be fun at the same […]

South Wales Echo: Give cyclists a fairer deal
The Echo today demands a fairer deal for the city’s cyclists with the launch of our Back the Bikes campaign. With Cardiff having one of the lowest rates in the UK for the number of people using bikes, we want to make it easier – and safer […]

The Durham News: Get off the gas pedal and try a foot pedal; you’ll love it
Whenever I see joggers pounding their joints on the side of the road, I have to resist the temptation to cup my hands and shout: “Get a bike!” But that probably won’t convert many people. So how about answering some […]

York Region.com: Have bike, will travel
Reporter Caroline Grech risks life and limb to cycle to work on York’s mean streets
“The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of 3,000 miles per gallon.” — Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist.
I left Gloria at home today. Gloria is […]

CBS News: Berlin’s Bicycle Boom: CBSNews.com’s Lagorio On The Prevalence Of Bikers In Berlin
One of the first lessons a visitor to Berlin learns is to stay out of the red. This isn’t a lesson in accounting; it has nothing to do with the exchange rate. It is about walking down the sidewalk. Strolling through […]

Sea Coast Online.com: He’s helping to make bicycling connections - Greenway project will tie N.H. to rest of the East Coast
Nels Tyring of Stratham is 76 years old, a cancer survivor, grandfather to five, great-grandfather to another five, and for the last 18 years has been bicycle enthusiast. Tyring is a longtime member of […]