Source: Riocharm.com.br With the world’s spotlight on Rio de Janeiro and football this year, we thought we would share something a bit different from the booming Brazilian city. The Transporte Ativo (Active Transportation) NGO has taken huge...

The ECF’s B-Track-B is a very useful marketing tool for cities and organisations who want to encourage citizens to cycle. B-Track-B provides virtual check-in points within cities which allow cyclists to see how many trips they have made. As a...

  MOVE Week is almost upon as again! From 29th September to 5th October 2014, MOVE Week will once again unite Europe to celebrate and promote sport and physical activity. The NowWeMove campaign is a joint effort between ECF and the International...

There are some very inspiring stories of how B-Track-B campaigns have been reaching out to their communities and especially to their schools to spread the message of cycling. Denmark Fredericia, in Denmark, is a great example of a city that has...

  Cycling at the International Transport Forum Photo credit ITF The role of cycling in a changing and increasingly urbanized world The International Transport Forum brings together a great number of Ministers of Transport and policy makers in...

                            Steven Koster is owner of PUURland, an on-line shopping service for regional and biological products in the Arnhem region in the eastern part of The Netherlands. Steven: “In order to make it as easy as possible for my...

Every year, the International Transport Forum brings together a great number of Ministers of Transport and policy makers in the transport sector worldwide. ECF, the world’s largest cycling advocacy organization, was invited to join the conference...

                          The B-Track-B campaign is continuing to gain momentum with a number of inspiring projects taking place across Europe. B-Track-B uses tracking technology to incentivize citizens to get on their bikes. Personal `Bike...

The average cyclist would find it painful to do over 100 kilometers daily for four subsequent days.  Not so for the  twelve recumbent cyclists who did the Speckweg 2014 Tour and enjoyed every single kilometer. The tour started in Sainte-Croix and...

A few years ago, for the first time, Spain sold more bicycles than cars, joining in with the rest of Europe where this trend has already been consolidated. And now a study by AMBE, the Spanish Brands and Bicycles Association, shows that in 2013 more...

Andrzey Felczak (Austria –Radlobby), Klaus Bondam (Denmark, Danish Cyclists’ Federation) and Burkhard Stork (Germany, ADFC) have provided us with a few tips and tricks for effective political campaigning. There are a few do’s and don’ts that ought...

ECF in the news - Screenshot from Reuters news website Reuters website reported today on the Bike2Work scheme that ECF is coordinating. As its name suggests, the scheme is geared at encouraging commuters to use their bicycles in their daily...