After months of planning, EuroVelo.org – the website for professionals working on the EuroVelo routes – has gone live as of Tuesday 15th November.  The website aims to provide advice, guidance, tips and tools for all those individuals and...

Photo Credit: Amsterdamize There is still little awareness of the multiple ways in which modern-day urban life constricts a child’s mobility and opportunities for physical activity. We still don't know the full health impacts when children don't...

Credit: Belgium Cycle Chic Bike to Work in Belgium has welcomed its 15 000th registered cyclist. All these cyclists can save their Belgian employers a lot of money. On average, regular cyclists take one less day of sick leave a year. A "sick day...

Credits: Reuters It would seem that property values are linked to their proximity to bicycle paths. Two researchers from the University of Cincinnati last month concluded that purchasing a house located next to a bicycle trail comes at a premium...

Submissions are now being invited for presentations for the Velo-City 2012 conference. The deadline for submissions is November 15th 2011. The event will take place from June 26th to 29th next year and offers delegates the opportunity to share best...

ECF has associate members all over the world. From Turkey to America, and Bulgaria to the United Kingdom. Yet often when we think cycling, our thoughts drift to the Netherlands, or Denmark. We forget that cycling is going global. The last decade...

I was asked by ECF to tell you a little bit more about Dutch bicycle ‘culture’ and Amsterdam in particular. And it starts right there: I use quotation marks for ‘culture’, because there’s a big difference in how the Dutch understand this word and...

Patrick Lyndon from the environmental publication, Sociecity attended the ECO-mobility conference in Changwon, Korea last month. It seems that the conference and the global move towards cycling has left quite an impression on him. Enjoy his post. ...

 By Ceri Woolsgrove As Christmas is approaching, the bicycle world has been treated yet again with another study.  Just yesterday we highlighted a Swedish study on how much healthier commuting cyclists were compared to those using cars and buses...

By Ceri Woolsgrove   Yet another result showing the healthier benefits of cycling over car or public transport use has been released by a Swedish group of researchers. It has often been shown that regular cyclists live longer and have a healthier...

  Is one of the world’s largest inter-governmental military alliances running on pedal power? NATO’s headquarters in Belgium and its 5000 international civilian staff play a mammoth role in its policy planning of operations and capabilities. As...

Photo: Cycling in Thessaloniki Credit: Oneiros In the midst of strikes and cleaning garbage in the street, Yiannis Boutaris, Mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, admits he’s a fan of two-wheeled pedal power: “I think the bicycle is...