Numbers presented recently by German two-wheeler industry association ZIV suggest that in 2013 the value of sales on the bike market remained largely stable at more than € 4 billion, even though the number of bicycles sold decreased slightly.  A...

Since the first Iberian Congress on "The Bicycle and the City", which took place in Lisbon, Portugal in 1996 these venues have been important instruments to provide greater awareness and exchange of best practices in bicycle mobility as a central...

Cycling in Apulia A study on the mobility needs of people travelling to Puglia, with a specific focus on cycling mobility,  is being carried out by the Puglia Regional Transport Department and the University of Salento. The initiative is part of...

Velo-city Global 2014 is just around the corner! Here at ECF we are getting more and more excited about all the fun, interesting, and enlightening events offered at this year's conference in Adelaide. We've spoken with three participants to ask...

Photo: wili/Flickr Ljubljana, April 22.  The B-track-B campaign “One can get far on bicycle!” started on Earth Day in Slovenia's capital with a bike ride from the Office of the President of the Republic of Slovenia to the city zoo. Under the...

Irish Minister from Department of Finance and MEP candidate, Brian Hayes, with ECF President, Manfred Neun Irish Minister and MEP candidate Brian Hayes signed ECF manifesto for the upcoming European Parliament elections during the Annual General...

Photo: Neil Fraser One of Belgium’s most famous exports is the family of blue cartoon characters known as the ‘Smurfs’.  They may soon be joined by something else that shares the same colour: the national bicycle sharing scheme – Blue-bike –...

The Seventh Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF7) was attended by 22,000 people last month in Medellin, Colombia and overall it was described as a complete success. ECF was there, presenting cycling on the world stage and starting the buzz about...

"Golpe de Estrada" (coup de route) is the appeal launched by an anonymous group of families from Oeiras, Portugal which has spread virally on social networks. The idea is to celebrate the 40 years of the peaceful April 25th Carnation Revolution -...

  Cycle parking - a passion-filled debate or a dull technical topic? Surprising ECF's Development Director Kevin Mayne, his personal musings on cycle parking sparked a flurry of social media activity last week. Cycle parking remains a hot topic in...

At least 10 000 lives could be saved and over 76 600 job opportunities created if people in major European cities cycled as much as the citizens of Copenhagen. That is what a study published on Monday by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests...

Look at them go! Four kindergartens in Fredericia (Denmark), a participating city in B-Track-B, focused on encouraging young children to develop cycling habits at an early age. Along with the CykelScore project, Fredericia is training the next...