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...

 Photo: flickr/debarshiray Over the past few years the ECF has been running the €6 Billion Campaign to increase the amount of EU funds spent on cycling during the new programming period (2014-2020).  To date, the focus of the Campaign has been to...

Even in a year such as 2013, marked by economic hardship as well as a meteorologically challenging spring (to say the least), the French continued to buy bikes. That’s what the numbers recently published in the “Bicycle Observatory” by the “Conseil...

As hosts of the upcoming ECF Annual General Meeting from April 25 – 27, we take a look this month at the work of Cyclist.ie, Ireland’s national cycling lobby group. The Irish Cycling Advocacy Network - Cyclist.ie, with its local partner Dublin...

Every week leading up to Velo-city Global Adelaide 2014, the leading global conference on cycling, we're going to get you acquainted with one of the fantastic conference speakers. This week: See bicycling in a new light with Bojun Bjorkman-Chiswell...