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 […]