HOME | SEARCH | SITEMAP | IMPRINT   

You are here >> Home / Members / France

Short profile of membergroup
FUB, Fédération Française des Usagers de la Bicyclette
12 rue des Bouchers
67000 Strasbourg
cp: Thomas Sedlbauer		 phone: +33 3 88 75 71 90
fax: +33 3 88 36 84 65
email: contact.ecf@fubicy.org
web: www.fubicy.org
Country
France
 
Founded in
1980		 Region of activity
France
 
Number of Members
160 associations. No individual membership		 ECF Membership
1980
Organization
Management Comitee : 18 volunteers from all over the country, elected every year by delegates of the local groups. Staff in Strasbourg : 4 persons. All regional and local actions are managed independently by the local associations.
Short Summary

FUB is an « urban » cyclists federation, it helps its local groups to promote everyday cycling, and to improve infrastructure, services and safety for cyclists. FUB represents « everyday cyclists » at national level and helps to coordinate national events.

 

Activities of our local groups vary a lot from member to member. They may include lobbying at local or regional level, education in cycling and /or bike repair, developping school or enterprises travel plans, bike rental, participating in cycle infrastructure monitoring, organising events during European Mobility Week in september and Environment week in june, and participating to FUB working groups in collaboration with the Management Comitee.
Example activities

Our actions are reported in our magazine Velocite, published 5 times per year.

• participate to events like « European Mobility Week » and to « Fête du vélo »

• cyclists safety : studies and proposals for improving cycle infrastructure and traffic rules

• bike theft prevention : creation and operation of a bike coding system to prevent bike theft  http://bicycode.org. Publication of bike locks break tests, with the aim of setting a standard

• provide documents for the communication of local groups and the monitoring of cycle policy. Offer free internet services for local associations (mail, lists, subdomains and web pages)

• and of course lobbying at national level, in collaboration with other federations active in transports, environement and/or tourism domains.
www