Cycling Information Links

The following information and links are only a small example of the vast amount of cycling info that’s available! These government and non-government organisations, cycling tips, news and advice can assist you broaden and enlighten your knowledge of the bicycle universe. If you have additional links and information, please contact us and we’ll add them here.

Arrive Alive: Bicycle Safety (Vic)
Bicyclists are a vulnerable road user group with research indicating that a significant number of injuries are not reported. The major injury sustained by a bicyclist involved in a fatal road crash is to the head. The introduction of the requirement to wear a bicycle helmet in 1990 has contributed to a significant drop in the number of cyclist deaths. This highlights the importance of continuing to ensure that bicyclists wear helmets.

Australian Cyclist
Australian Cyclist magazine is published by Bicycle NSW for the Bicycle Federation of Australia

Better Health Channel: Cycling Tips
Cycling is great exercise. Tips to stay safe on your bike, prevent injury, be careful in the sun and heat and remember your first aid kit. Water and sun protection will help prevent fatigue, dehydration and heat stress. Bike helmets are essential protection.

Bicycle Almanac: Safety, Fatalities, & Injuries
Stats about Pollution, Energy Use, Walking, Highways, and Airplanes, are on our general Almanac page. All statistics below refer to the United States unless otherwise noted.

Bicycle Safe: How to Not Get Hit by Cars (US/Aus)
This page shows you real ways you can get hit and real ways to avoid them. This is a far cry from normal bike safety guides, which usually tell you little more than to wear your helmet and to follow the law. But consider this for a moment: Wearing a helmet will do absolutely nothing to prevent you from getting hit by a car! Sure, helmets might help you if you get hit, and it’s a good idea to wear one, but your #1 goal should be to avoid getting hit in the first place.

Bicycle Universe (US)
Michael Bluejay’s Bicycle Universe site. An incrediable resource of links and useful information.

Bicycles Network Australia
Bicycles.net.au is an initiative of Bicycles Network Australia and since 1999 has operated as a free, non-profit cycling online resource. The website is a comprehensive online Australian Cycling directory and starting point for cycling related information. Australian shops, clubs, organisations, brands and cycling related bodies with a website are able to submit their details for free.

Bikely
Bikely helps cyclists share knowledge of good bicycle routes. It can be quite tricky traversing a car dominated city such as Melbourne on a bike, particularly when you need to travel an unknown route to a new destination. But the chances are, someone has cycled that way before you. Bikely makes it easy for him or her to show you the best way. Bikely is very young right now. What it needs more than anything is people like you to submit your favorite bike paths.

Bike For All (UK)
Everything you wanted to know about cycling but were afraid to ask. Cycling is fun, fast, green and healthy. That’s why we want you to spend more time pedalling, and less time sitting in front of the computer. Bikeforall.net is a filter, listing the useful bike stuff on the internet, ignoring the duff. There are some excellent sources of information out there, if you know where to look.

Cycling Advocacy
Cycling Advocacy is a database of resources and information for cycling advocacy. This website brings together key information and resources on subjects related to cycling advocacy.

Cycling News
Since its inception in 1995, www.cyclingnews.com has grown to become the worldwide leader on the Internet for the sport of cycling, the number one summer sport in Europe and one that is growing in popularity around the world.

Deter: Aftermath, Fallout, Repercussion, End (UK)
Before you go out and do something you may regret, and many more people will regret even more THINK! do you really want to be responsible for killing another person.

Fixed.org.au: The Anticoast
News, photo gallery, forums for Australian fixie riders. Got fixed gear related news? Organising a ride somewhere? Seen something new? Why not contribute it? Use the contact forum here and send in some details.

Ken Kifer Bike Pages (US)
Philosophy expressed through a different kind of vehicle. Many articles on bicycle travel and camping, including stories of his bike trips, cycling humor, bicycle traffic safety instructions, bicycling advocacy, the cyclist lifestyle, basic skills for cyclists, surveys and data, and links to many other bicycling sites.

Rules for Bicycles and Skateboards in Victoria
A concise view of legislation concerning people powered transport. This document has been prepared as a guide to bicycle users, particularly to organisations that use bicycles for transport.

‘Shared Respect’ Self-Regulated Code of Conduct for Cyclists (Vic)
The Transport Accident Commission (TAC) and Victoria and Victoria Police, together with other generous corporate sponsors have united to promote and develop the concept of “Shared Respect” amongst road users and to promote a Self-Regulated Code of Conduct for cyclists. The initiative is to create a culture with all cyclists to be more responsible and take ownership of the conduct when using the roads. It is based upon cyclists adopting a Self Regulated Code of Conduct when using the roads. The Self-Regulated Code of Conduct for cyclist will assist in making the roads a safer place for all road users.

Sheldon Brown (US)
Over 70 articles on varied aspects of cycling, including an informational glossary of bicycle terms.

The Sydney Bicycle Messenger Association started as an idea to create a focal point for the sense of community that already existed amongst Sydney’s messenger population. The sydbma was inspired by the large number of international cities with active messenger associations providing a voice for messengers worldwide.

TravelSmart Australia
TravelSmart brings together the many community and government based programs that are asking Australians to use alternatives to traveling in their private car. TravelSmart programs by Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments ask people to make voluntary changes in their travel choices, encouraging people to use other ways of getting about rather than driving alone in a car. For example – using buses, trains and ferries, carpooling or by cycling or walking, or by tele-working.

TravelSmart: Bikeability Toolkit
The Bikeability Toolkit will provide guidance, information and help communities and local government to assess the bikeability of their community. They will be able to develop better integrated cycle planning, policies and implementation strategies. This will result in safety improvements, enhanced access to cycling, changes in modal share of short trips from car to bicycle, improved liveability and increased physical activity through active transport.

TravelSmart: Bicycle Maps (Victoria)
TravelSmart Maps are based on a traditional Melway base with the colours altered to favour cycling and public transport above the arterial road network and other car based information. Maps are produced and distributed as part of select TravelSmart Communities, Education and Workplaces projects.

Victoria Police: Virtual Bike
Bicycles are becoming increasingly popular with people of all ages. Some people ride for fun, some for health & fitness and some use bicycles as their principal form of transport. Cycling is an effective, healthy and environmentally friendly way to get around. However bicycles are not toys, they are vehicles and under the law cyclists have the same rights and responsibilities as other road users.

Wikipedia: Bicycle transportation engineering
Bicycle transportation engineering is the study of transportation engineering as it affects bicycling.

Wikipedia: Bicycles
A bicycle is a pedal-driven human-powered vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. First introduced in 19th-century Europe, bicycles evolved quickly into their familiar, current design. Numbering over 1,000,000,000 in the world today, bicycles provide the principal means of transportation in many regions and a popular form of recreational transport in others.

Wikipedia: Bicycle Safety
Defining danger: Using one meaning of the word, cycling is not dangerous. There are some injuries and a few very rare fatalities caused to non-cyclists by cyclists, largely due to cycling on the footway (UK) or a sidepath (USA), but since this is itself a response to the danger posed by others to cyclists this is arguably not an inherent danger of cycling.

Wikipedia: Cycling
Cycling is a recreation, a sport and a means of transport across land. It involves riding bicycles, unicycles, tricycles and other human powered vehicles (HPVs).

Wikipedia: Utility cycling
Utility cycling encompasses any cycling not done primarily for fitness, recreation such as cycle touring, or sport such as cycle racing, but simply as a means of transport. Utility cycling is the most common type of cycling in the world.