This year’s EuroVelo, Greenways and Cycling Tourism Conference will be taking place in Basel, Switzerland on 19th September.  It will be incorporated within the closing of the successful Demarrage – EuroVelo 15 – Rhine Route Project. The day will...

Despite all the progress on cycling issues over the past few years, one area where there have been few success stories is in the reduction of bike theft. With the sharp growth in bike theft figures in Dublin over the past few years, David Timoney...

Cycling Industry Club chair Tony Grimaldi (CEO of Cycleurope) vice-chair Raymond Gense (Director of Future Technology & Public Affairs at PON Bicycle Group) and new member James Smith (Commercial and Sponsorship Director at Primal) New...

  Leading bike company Bosch had this mock-up cargo bike on display at EUROBIKE ECF’s Director of Development, Kevin Mayne, chaired a dynamic panel discussion on the last day of Eurobike 2014 on the future of the cargo bikes industry. The panel,...

ECF member, the Cycling Club of Idalion (Δημοτικός Όμιλος Ποδηλάτου Ιδαλίου), is organising its 11th annual cycling day as part of this year’s MOVE Week. The Cypriot cycling group is an active promoter of cycling and sustainable mobility who...

A study published recently in the British Medical Journal has proven once more what committed cycle commuters have known for a long time: Taking your bike to get to work makes you fitter! Using a large, nationally-representative dataset, the...

Next month the 2014 edition of Europe’s biggest community sport and physical activity event will take place. It all kicks off on the global World Heart Day on 29 September and will continue throughout the week until 5 October. MOVE Week is the...

The twice-monthly General Newsletter has just been published! You can click on the link below to browse through it. And don't forget to sign up, you can do so on the ECF homepage. Click here to read the 18 August 2014 newsletter

In many European urban centres, the full potential for cycling has not yet been realized. The simple reason is that towns and cities still primarily accommodate car users and neglect cyclists. “Re-allocating road space” is therefore a demand often...

Left to right -Moreno Fioravanti (ACCELL, EBMA and COLIBI), Raymond Gense (PON Bicycle Group), Arne Melse (DHL Express N) and Kevin Mayne (ECF Development Director) The cycling industry continues to solidify its role as an influential player on...

Advocacy is the best way to get funding and legislation that favours cycling, both of which are necessary conditions for growing bike industry. At the upcoming Advocacy Summit, ECF’s Cycling Industry Club (CIC) will be introducing an exciting new...

Cargo bike in Copenhagen (Source: Mikael Colville-Andersen) ECF understands that growing the cycling modal share means investing in the brightest and best new innovations. New and developing technologies such as e-bikes and cargo bikes hold in...