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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) ReadYou may also like
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
Bicycle in NYC without being killed using Ride the City
CNET Networks | 03/07/08 
My CNET colleague in New York, Caroline McCarthy, insists there's not a single safe street for bicyclists in New York City. Don't tell that to Ride the ... More
'There's Mommy, riding a bike'
Toronto Star 1 | 29/05/08
Thirty-seven years after this race started, Grace Ramos stood, holding a video camera, at what her mother called "the finish line."
In Ecuador, men ... More
Afghan mine victims proudly work as bicycle couriers
Reuters | 22/05/08
Abdul Saboor rides his bicycle as far as 30 km a day through the dusty streets of Kabul delivering packages. Most people might be daunted by such distances ... More
Extreme marks the spot
The Sydney Morning Herald | 22/05/08
If acrobat Alexandra Harrison has learned one thing from performing in Paradise City, it's that you don't get between a BMX champ and his bike.
At ... More
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
Bikes on Snow provides thrills, spills
Stuff | 03/07/08
That's why you have to fit chains to your car and drive slowly.
That's why snow ploughs run on caterpillar tracks and why practically all winter sports ... More
Two bikers go to the extreme
Hometown Weekly | 26/06/08
Sophomores Peter McNulty and Mike Gross don't spend their summer weekends hanging out around town. They get up at 6:00am on most Saturdays, pack up the ... More
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