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On ya bike for slice of Bangkok life

News.com.au | 01/05/08

IT seems hard to believe, but there are some people who say Bangkok is one of the best places in the world for cycling. It's also, according to Co ... Read

Quests Separate Soldier and Olympic Hopeful

The New York Times | 01/05/08

She longed to compete in the Olympics. He always wanted to join the Army. She started BMX racing at age 5. He stocked his movie collection with war films. On ... Read

Woman who foiled bike thief locked up

Telegraph | 02/03/07

A woman who chased and caught a bicycle thief ended up in police cells for 10 hours on suspicion of assault. Wendy Challis-Jones, 39, a former traffic ... Read

Sophie rewarded for bike safety

Swindon Advertiser | 11/01/07

Safety conscious Sophie Grange won a new bike as a reward for wearing her helmet while on the roads. Four-year-old Sophie was riding near her home in Upper ... Read

Bike thieves can't be touched because of legal loophole

Dearnetoday.co.uk | 11/01/07

Jessica Barlow was devastated after her Christmas present - a brand new bicycle - was stolen from outside the charity shop where she worked as a volunteer ... Read

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

Drunk man invents story to avoid wife's wrath

Independent online | 08/12/06

A German cyclist lied to police about being mugged because he was afraid to tell his wife the truth: he rode into a lamp post while drunk and injured himself. ... Read

Stolen bike transports lazy thief

The Collegian | 08/12/06

One sunny afternoon, I departed The Union to bike home and get some food. I encountered one main problem, though - my bike was gone. Some rapscallion stole ... Read

Oli's mountain bike diary, part 1

BBC | 31/08/07

The days are counting down and now it�s only 10 days to the biggest MTB race of the year and my season�s goal, the World Championships. The ... 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

Attack Of The Eggheads

Bicycling | 25/01/07

“At the end of the day, even with a plumb line, with lasers, this is still an educated guess.” Dr. Andy Pruitt, speaking at the Serotta International Cycling ... 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

Toledo man arrested for stealing bicycle after leaving court

Toledoblade.com | 29/06/07

When Quentin Snow Veley left the Lucas County Courthouse Wednesday, he, just moments before, had been given a month to prepare for his pending trial on ... 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

Shane Slater's home-made carbon singlespeed

Bike Magic | 23/11/06

This is my home-made carbon fibre singlespeed, built by me over the winter of 2004. I wanted to try a newish design so thought about getting rid of the ... Read

Cycling: Veteran rises as leaves refuse to fall

International Herald Tribune | 12/10/06

As the pack in Paris- Tours left the start in a long line and headed southwest, "the regional," or the rider through whose home territory a race passes, ... Read

Pupils pedal length of Africa in virtual bike race challenge

Bikeradar | 15/05/08

Some 80 schools are taking part in the first ever national Bike It virtual bike race - a 7,500-mile journey from Cairo to Cape Town, based on the route ... More

Wheeling through history

The Phoenix | 09/05/08

n a cramped basement in Watertown, collector Michael Kaplan squeezes another box of parts next to his $10,000 1934 Schwinn Streamline Aerocycle. At a bike ... More

Weights Help You Hang

Bicycling | 09/05/08

Sprinters and climbers know that strength training is essential for increasing their max power, but Norwegian researchers have found adding weights to ... More

New cycling test set for children

BBC | 07/09/06

A new cycling proficiency award aimed at preparing children for the present traffic and road conditions has been launched. Bikeability will be awarded ... Read

Neck break teacher's bike quest

BBC | 07/06/07

Dave Griffin, 43, severed his spine demonstrating a trampoline bounce to pupils at Llanishen High School in Cardiff in 2005. But just six weeks after the ... Read

‘Ghost bikes' are shrines to victims of cycling accidents

The Providence Journal | 17/05/07

Their first date was on bicycles. They took their two children to school on bicycles. They toured the world on bicycles. Bicycles were a major part of ... 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

Strida is splashed all over tabloids thanks to Royal patronage

Bikebiz.co.uk | 28/09/06

A paparazzi pic of Lord Linley talking his daughter to school by bike is today featured in The Mirror, The Daily Mail and The Express. These latter two ... Read

Donate your old bike to Africa

BBC | 28/09/06

Jole Rider repairs any type of bike and gives them to children in Gambia whose walk to their secondary schools can be more than 10 miles each way. The ... Read