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The Fixed-Gear Trend in Santa Cruz

Taylor Holmes pedals wildly as he charges downhill from the UC Santa Cruz campus, his skin-tight black jeans quickly spinning into blurs as he struggles to keep pace with his back wheel. Passersby may ask themselves: Why doesn't he simply stop pedaling and let gravity do all the hard work? His bike won't let him. (09/05) More

Keyword(s) : Wheel, Pedal, Back

Bike passion spins out great tales of cycle pioneers in NZ

Hawke's Bay Today | 20/06/08

"Tearing along the traffic-burthened thoroughfare with staring eyeballs and reeking frame, this insane demon shoots past men, women and children, with ... More

Bike museum is judge's passion

Kentucky.com | 29/05/08

With so many bicycles on display, it's easy to overlook the framed, black-and-white photograph hanging on the back wall. Taken in 1954, the photo shows ... 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

Reinventing the wheel

Daily Princetonian | 24/04/08

Chances are you've never seen a bicycle made out of bamboo. If you picture a bamboo bike as wobbly or lopsided, though, think again, because when juniors ... Read

Andrea's Patagonian Adventure

Pez Cyclingnews | 25/01/07

It's not uncommon for aging pro racers to put off retirement for another year or few because they just don't know what to do next. Recently retired ex-CSC ... Read

Their Kingdom for a Bike: It's Polo on Two Wheels

The New York Times | 03/05/07

You do not have to be a king to play polo. You do not need a 300-yard grass field, a long-handled mallet or a helmet. In fact, you do not even need a horse. ... Read

Wheels of fortune: The great debate rolls on between cyclists and motorists

Yorkshire Post | 29/03/07

As the Government unveils plans to invest £10m in 21st century cycling proficiency tests, Stephen Biscoe champions a return to pedal power, while ... 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

Suicide squirrel in opera-hating kamikaze bike spoke mangle

The Register | 07/09/06

A Helsinki squirrel dived into the bicycle wheel of passing opera singer Esa Ruuttunen, hospitalising him and killing itself. The squirrel - apparently ... Read

Insider's tour of Marin, on two wheels

Los Angeles Times | 08/12/06

WAITING for my latte at Tiburon's Cafe Acri, I was surrounded by a dozen men in powder-blue spandex. Their legs were closely shaved, and they walked in ... Read

Australian cyclist fits continental tyres

The Raw Story | 02/11/06

Last year, 53-year-old German fitness freak Achim Heukemes ran the equivalent of two-and-a-half marathons every day for 43 days to set a record for the ... Read

Basic training gets bike riders in gear for the trail

Seattle Post Intelligencer | 31/08/06

Falling off a pair of spinning wheels happens too fast for your life to flash through your mind, but you usually can get a curse word out and -- surprisingly ... Read

Women encouraged to get on bikes

Oxford Mail | 31/05/07

Women are being urged to get on their bikes this weekend as part of a scheme to get more women on two wheels. The Five Miles to Fabulous rides are taking ... Read

Sore Butt? Greasy pant-leg? Bad date-on-wheels? Ask Mr. Bike

Miami New Times | 24/05/07

The other day, I was griping to Mr. Bike on the phone about how much crap I had hauled to work on my bike that morning. “Have you thought about getting ... Read

Big wheels OK, say UCI

Bikemagic.com | 14/12/06

Gary Fisher has managed to persuade the UCI to allow 29in wheeled bikes to take part in mountain bike races. He's been working on the UCI for several ... Read

To grasp disaster, bike New Orleans

International Herald Tribune | 07/09/06

We start on high ground. It's hot and muggy, not a pleasant day for a bicycle ride. Then again, New Orleans never was all that pleasant in the late summer, ... Read

Wheels of hope turn in Rwanda

BusinessDay | 03/08/07

Bright yellow, green and blue jackets stood out in the departure lounge of Kigali's international airport. Rwanda's young national cycling team was on ... 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

South Africa: Putting Rural Children On Wheels

allAfrica.com | 26/04/07

RON Thompson is happiest when riding his bike. He has devoted his time, energy and money to finding ways of putting thousands of poor people, and especially ... Read

Tour de Torture: Who Is Prepared to Suffer the Most?

The New York Times | 03/07/08

A coach once told me, “Go until you see Jesus.” Another told me, “Pedal until you taste blood.” Everybody in the Tour de France will suffer; the winner ... More

U B the expert: Do your own bike repairs

WalletPop | 03/07/08

I've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of bicycle riders in my hometown this summer, many, I presume, driven to pedal by the rise in gas costs. ... More

Ride to work and take the strain out of buying a bike

Independent | 20/06/08

With fuel prices rocketing, there has never been a better time to turn to pedal power. And moving into the cycle lane could be even more appealing if you ... More

Season's first ride needn't be a pain

Canada.com | 06/06/08

About to pedal off on the first bike ride of the season? Ten words: Take it easy. Cool down after. Or you'll be sorry. Saddle sores? Aching back anyone? The ... More

Thief Who “Tried Out” Bike Apprehended, Unpunished

Gothamist | 29/05/08

Remember that trusting cyclist who let a complete stranger “try out” his KHS bike – only to watch him pedal away, never to return? The story has a (sort ... More

Mike's Flying Bike for Google Earth

Google Earth Blog | 23/05/08

Ok, I have to say this is the craziest way to control Google Earth I've seen yet (even crazier than the ping pong ball interface). This guy Mike has used ... More

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

Victoria Pendleton: pedal to the medal

Telegraph | 01/05/08

Gold medals are rare treasures for British athletes. But the track cyclist Victoria Pendleton already has quite a collection of them, beginning with the ... Read

The man who pushed his bike 175 miles – in Alaska

Worcester News | 15/04/08

AS Christian Cullinane admitted, it was no place to have the pedal fall off your bike. With temperatures touching minus 30C and the white wilderness of ... Read

Cinema-goers get on bikes to power film reel

Lancashire Evening Post | 03/04/08

Cinema-goers will be swapping comfy seats and popcorn for push bikes as Lancashire's first pedal-powered film gets underway. It's likely more eyes ... Read

Wheels of fortune: The great debate rolls on between cyclists and motorists

Yorkshire Post | 29/03/07

As the Government unveils plans to invest £10m in 21st century cycling proficiency tests, Stephen Biscoe champions a return to pedal power, while ... Read

Bride on a bike for two

Manchester Evening News | 18/01/07

IT may look like a giant bicycle but bride Sadie King didn't have to worry about the limo turning up late for her wedding. Sadie, 29, was taken to church ... 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

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

On the Road for 4 Years and 25,000 Miles

The New York Times | 19/10/06

In a sense, cycling around the world was easy. I bought a steel mountain bike (which I had to weld back together six times), put a repair kit, tent, sleeping ... Read

What does riding a bike have to do with building my Network Marketing/MLM business?

American Chronicle | 24/05/07

Do you remember learning to ride a bike? Picture yourself as a kid. You are 6 maybe 7 years old and you are attempting to ride your bike up a hill. If ... 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

Bicycle sales outpace cars as firms start treadly fleets

The Sydney Morning Herald | 11/01/07

SALES of bicycles outpaced those of motor vehicles in 2006, as more people turned to pedal-power to cut petrol bills. The industry-backed Cycling Promotion ... Read

La Ruta 2006

Bikemag | 09/11/06

Just 20 years old, Amador said it was an honor to debate the title with such a great athlete. “He is very humble and shy, but he does show what he is made ... Read

Let's change the bike laws

SFBG | 20/06/08

Should bicyclists be allowed to treat stop signs as “yields” and stop lights like stop signs? Tomorrow, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Bicycle ... More

Season's first ride needn't be a pain

Canada.com | 06/06/08

About to pedal off on the first bike ride of the season? Ten words: Take it easy. Cool down after. Or you'll be sorry. Saddle sores? Aching back anyone? The ... More

Bike museum is judge's passion

Kentucky.com | 29/05/08

With so many bicycles on display, it's easy to overlook the framed, black-and-white photograph hanging on the back wall. Taken in 1954, the photo shows ... 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

Reflectivity, why not more?

Bicycle Desgn | 22/05/08

This picture, from our local bike to work day breakfast last week, shows one of the red blinkie lights on the back of my commuter bike. I have one on my ... More

Giro di PEZ: On The Pirate's Roads

Pez Cyclingnews | 22/05/08

Welcome back to Pirate's roads. Thirty-five kilometres to go and I stop once I read the big advice on the right side of the road. The Giro today is north ... More

Laid-back triathlete works to lift himself over Ironman hump

SignOnSanDiego.com | 29/03/07

It's not as if Luke Bell's biological clock were ticking. Five weeks shy of 28, the Australian triathlete is in the prime of his career. Still, critics ... Read

A Ride On The Funky Side

Bicycling | 12/04/07

So I was watching a DVD of an old Parliament-Funkadelic concert with my daughter the other night-you know one of those funky-good-time shows from back ... Read

Tour de France strikes back at federation's grip on the big races

Guardian | 15/12/06

The festering conflict between the sport's governing body, the International Cycling Union, and major race organisers took a serious turn yesterday when ... Read

Tour de PEZ: Roadside Wrap-Up 1

Pez Cyclingnews | 01/08/07

If your post-Tour hangover hasn't kicked in yet – it will any day now. So to ease the pain of grand tour withdrawal, PEZ-man Bob Cullinan looks back on ... Read

The meeting of minds

The Guardian | 23/11/06

So I was sitting in the back row at the concert, waiting for the interval to finish and the music to start again. Because it was a Thursday, I had that ... Read

Very Veronica: Back From The Brink

Pez Cyclingnews | 17/08/07

Just before she was due to ride the Swedish nationals as the TT favorite, our newest pro diarist Veronica Andréasson was hit by a car while training ... Read

Matt Seaton's top 10 books about cycling

The Guardian | 31/07/07

Matt Seaton's haunting memoir, The Escape Artist, charts the physical and emotional consequences of his obsession with cycling, and his struggle with ... Read

'Cycling those carbon emissions away'

BBC | 02/03/07

The council plans to have 500 bicycles located at 25 points around the city for public use 24 hours a day. For a small charge, still to be determined, ... Read

Monsieur Felix and his bicycle tricks

Seattle Times | 08/02/07

Here's an entertainment tip if you're in the vicinity of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Go to the back of the church and find the Pont St. Louis, a pedestrian ... Read