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...

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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...

Source: Laurent Tine ECF’s Cycling Industry Club (CIC), representing some of the most influential global cycling companies, will be at ECF’s annual Advocacy Summit at Eurobike 2014. This successful event returns for the third year running as the...

  Photo credit: Flickr Ebs Els On Monday 21st July, the German Green MEP Michael Cramer and the Austrian EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn met at the EU House in Vienna to present the Iron Curtain Trail project. In order to develop cycling tourism on...