Without a doubt, 2011 has been a remarkable year for EuroVelo, the European cycle route network.  Over the past 12 months 2 new routes have officially joined the network; the first dedicated EuroVelo website has gone live; there is a renewed...

Photo Credit: James Schwartz, the Urban Country As I’m sitting in here in my office, tapping away at a computer and writing about cycling policy, cycling advocates are out in the street getting 'their spokes dirty' so to speak. This year has seen...

ECF Board at the 2011 AGM in Seville, Spain with Kevin Mayne on the far left Kevin Mayne, current Chief Executive of the UK’s national cyclists’ organisation (CTC) will be joining the European Cyclist’s Federation (ECF) as Director of Development...

Bicycles in Leipzig, Germany  A German Study has found that “29 percent of Germans are planning to buy a new bicycle in the next twelve months”.  We’re not talking about cheap nasty bicycles either: they’re willing to spend on average 620 € per...

Photo Credit: The Slow Bicycle Movement A new report from UK’s Department of Transport proves that traffic calming works. Looking at infrastructure and how it affects cyclists, they draw the following conclusions: Junctions are a major source of...

Velo-city 2012 are now accepting conference registrations. Check out this section here for rates, to register online and make payment. If you want save money register early, by March 31, 2012. The savings will be for the 4 full conference days.  ...

A new book due out next year, 'Roads Were Not Built For Cars', has  quite a few heads turning. For those of us growing up in a car-centric world it may sound like spin, but author Carlton Reid insists that he has undertaken pain-staking research:...

When you talk about cycling in Germany, thoughts generally drift to the northern cycling city of Bremen with a modal share of almost 30%. Munich however is fast catching up… A recent article in one of Germany’s most respected daily newspapers, the...

Credit: European Parliament Stricter CO2 emission targets, more cycling: The Transport & Tourism Committee (TRAN) of the European Parliament has strengthened on a number of issues the Commission White Paper on Transport in its vote this week...

Photo: BBC A BBC article has reported that "a man has painted a 30mph sign the height of a double decker bus on the side of his house in a Devon village". That's right. He was understandably sick and tired of vehicles tearing through his village...

ECF has been talking a lot recently about transporting goods by bicycle.  This is not about couriers on fixies tackling the streets to deliver packages. Instead the the cyclelogistics project wants to see goods transportation by bicycle move out of...

Photo Credit: Sexify South Korea in the past decade has been referred to as one the “Asian Tigers” for its spectacular economic growth. After a devastating civil war, the 1960s saw it with an income per head on par with the poorest parts of Africa...