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Students snap up free bicycle lamps

Students and staff at Oxford University snapped up 1,000 free sets of bicycle lights in just two hours. The giveaway on Saturday, as part of a safety drive by the university, saw queues stretch from the university's offices in Wellington Square, along Little Clarendon Street and into St Giles. (18/01) Read

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British cyclist Tom Austin among latest victims on the Road of Death

Timesonline | 01/05/08

As the Unduavi-Yolosa Highway in Bolivia winds down 12,000ft (3.6km) over 40 miles, its sheer drops and sudden bends present an irresistible challenge ... Read

Journey expands cyclist's horizons

Journal Sentinel | 22/02/07

Quinn Baumberger set off on his bicycle from the edge of North America last May, seeking to help those losing their vision to macular degeneration. Quinn ... Read

Konya-made bicycle-taxis on NY streets

Today's Zaman | 15/05/08

A Turkish bicycle producer has developed a popular bicycle-taxi that has made its way to the streets of the US and England. Sakallıoğlu ... More

Bicycle-makers ride high on surging oil prices

Reuters | 15/05/08

The row of gleaming bicycles being assembled on the factory floor of Giant Manufacturing, one of the world's biggest bicycle-makers, will soon hit streets ... More

Feather-boa bicycle bandits invade Vietnam's city streets

AFP | 15/05/08

An exotic and colourful new urban species has invaded Vietnam's crowded city streets, turning heads, slowing traffic and making a lot of noise -- the ... More

Who'll dare to bare for naked bike ride?

Thisishampshire.net | 15/05/08

IT is the cheeky, head-turning protest that has a serious message. Sporting nothing but their birthday suits and helmets, scores of people will take ... More

Google Maps captures teenage bike gaff

Bike Radar | 24/04/08

But what's this? A vehicle sporting an impressive item of roof-mounted optical hardware moves along the street at a steady, metered pace. The all-seeing ... Read

Mayor vows 'a good look' at Critical Mass

San Francisco Chronicle | 05/04/07

Mayor Gavin Newsom said today that he plans to take "a good look" at the city's response to Critical Mass after bicyclists allegedly smashed through ... Read

Artist is assembling sculpture out of bike parts

Ventura County Star | 04/04/08

Under a slight drizzle and with the ocean as a backdrop, Petaluma artist Mark Grieve began assembly Thursday of an 18-foot welded sculpture of dozens of ... Read

Act Now to Save Pedicabs

Pedal Pushers Online | 26/04/07

On March 30th, Mayor Michael Bloomberg vetoed Intro 331A, a bill passed by the City Council that would have strangled the city's growing pedicab industry ... Read

Cycle thieves 'dismantle' garage

BBC | 15/12/06

Determined thieves took apart a Darlington man's garage brick by brick to steal mountain bikes worth £6,000. The gang also dismantled three street ... Read

On your bike

Belfast Telegraph | 31/08/07

It's not that unusual for a teenage boy to have a paper round to get a little extra cash. What is out of the ordinary, however, is for that job to be ... Read

The Sideways Bike: Like Surfing the Streets

Wired News | 13/07/07

This crazy contraption is Michaels Killian's Sideways Bike. Killian is a software engineer in Dublin, Ireland and he came up with the idea while tinkering ... Read

Biking to work without any brakes

Gazette.net | 24/05/07

Dan Hommer has commuted by bicycle to work for the past 30 years. Traveling from his home in Rockville, Hommer loves approaching the intersections on Tuckerman ... Read

Bike to the future

The Prague Post | 14/09/06

It is axiomatic that the country made basic blunders after communism's fall. The gravest error, perhaps, was the fulsome embrace of the automobile. In ... Read

Pedal power

The Guardian | 12/04/07

In his first three years at secondary school, Kevin Kane's mum was spending more than £5 a week from her tight family budget so he could get the ... Read

Bicyclists winning a war of lanes in San Francisco

The Christian Science Monitor | 14/09/06

By day, they are sober-minded city professionals - teachers, doctors, lawyers - who forgo cars and buses to commute by bicycle. One Friday night a month, ... Read

Portland friends hatch intricate plan to recover stolen bike

The Seattle Times | 03/05/07

When Dory Van Fleet stepped out of the REI store, the black mountain bike he had locked up on the street was gone. In a steady drizzle, Van Fleet walked ... Read

Environmentalists stage 'naked' bike ride protest

24dash.com | 19/10/06

A group of brave environmentalists staged a "naked" bike ride through a busy city centre today. Bemused shoppers - many wrapped in coats and scarves ... Read

Interview: Mr. Ma, toy bicycle maker

Shanga¨List | 16/11/06

Seventy-four-year-old retired electrician Mr. Ma, who also goes by the monicker “Zhuan Ren” (meaning “specialized person”), has been hand-crafting intricate ... Read

Riding is the most profound activism

Los Angeles Times | 08/05/08

The greatness and downfall of adulthood lies in the abundance of choices. We can choose to quit our job, to workout more, to listen to our children, hang-glide ... More

Robbers superglue man naked to bike

Guardian | 03/05/07

It bore all the hallmarks of just another South African crime statistic: an armed gang, an abduction in broad daylight, a victim forced to drive home so ... Read

I want to ride my bicycle

HooK | 31/05/07

In the six minutes just before 9am, 40 cars whiz past the corner of Key West Drive and Stony Point Road, northeast of Pantops. Thirty six of them are inhabited ... Read

30 pubs in 6 days

Bikemag | 01/02/07

"Our mission was to hit some of Irelands best biking spots, while visiting as many pubs as possible along the way. The camper was packed with several ... Read

A Measure of the Power That Drives the Bicycle

The New York Times | 13/07/07

Two decades ago, Polar popularized the use of heart-rate monitors as training tools for athletes, both professional and amateur. More recently, dedicated ... Read

Interbike 2007 Cranks Up

Pez Cyclingnews | 08/10/07

Sure this is Inter-BIKE, but one category that stuck out this year was on the drive side - Cranks in particular. Here's what's cool from Ingenu, Easton, ... Read

Cyclist spinning way into French bike race

Columbia's Missourian | 31/05/07

Even as a child, Dale Brigham was a rider. At 4 years old, fresh off his tricycle, he decided to broaden his horizons and move past the scary sloping driveway ... Read

Bike to take on Japanese rivals

The Hindu | 16/05/07

Showing off the TVS Neo's features during a test drive at Sentul City, Indonesia, on Tuesday, the man behind its design was confident it could hold its ... Read