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 [...]