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Extreme marks the spot
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 one point in the mesmerising mash-up of street cultures, which premiered at the Opera House in 2006 and is returning for a repeat season, Harrison grabs hold of BMX maestro Simon O'Brien's back bike peg and is dragged across stage. (22/05) MoreYou may also like
BIY, Bike-It-Yourself: Stuff to Do On Your Bike This Summer
dane101.com | 20/06/08 
This column marks the 20th edition of BIY, Bike-It-Yourself. It seems like a good time to reflect on things and do a spot evaluation. Either that or my ... More
Women cyclists risk death because they don't jump red lights
Fisheroutdoor | 25/04/07 
Women cyclists are more likely to be killed by lorries than men because they obey red lights and then wait in drivers' blind spots. Research by Transport ... 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
Who can beat Garth?
Bermuda Sun | 08/02/07
Mechanical problems and being unavailble may have cost Garth Thompson a serious crack at top spot in the mountain bike points series. But he is still the ... Read
Leipheimer to lead Discovery Channel at Tour de France
International Herald Tribune | 28/06/07
Levi Leipheimer will lead the Discovery Channel cycling team at the Tour de France, taking over the spot once held by Lance Armstrong. Leipheimer, who ... Read
Bicycle bell crackdown has a ring of the nanny state
Telegraph.co.uk | 14/09/06
Labour plans to bring in new laws requiring every bicycle to have a bell and every cyclist to use it to alert pedestrians to their presence. Those found ... 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
Bicycle bell crackdown has a ring of the nanny state
Telegraph.co.uk | 22/09/06
Labour plans to bring in new laws requiring every bicycle to have a bell and every cyclist to use it to alert pedestrians to their presence. Those found ... 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
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
The Fixed-Gear Trend in Santa Cruz
City on a Hill Press | 09/05/08
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 ... 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
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
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
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
Bike parking
Guardian | 09/11/06
You know that something is afoot if bike parking is getting trendy. When architects and academics have decided it's time to wrest control of the humble ... 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
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
Students snap up free bicycle lamps
Oxford Mail | 18/01/07
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 ... 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