Spanish bicycle advocates are demanding asylum at European embassies across Spain in protest against anti-cycling legislation and compulsory helmet laws.  Cyclists in seven of Spain’s largest cities appealed for ‘cyclist asylum’ yesterday at over a...

In a keynote address at the Taipei Cycle Show, ECF’s Development Director Kevin Mayne explains why the world needs Taiwan to become a cycling island Taiwan’s often been called “the Bicycle Kingdom”. Last year it managed to export over $1.8 billion...

 ECF’s member FIAB is becoming a powerful lobby force in Italian politics. Not only have they managed to get parliamentarians cycling to the parliament, but they’ve got them making big promises.   This week, on a rainy day, 6 newly elected MPs...

Credit: Carlton Reid Car use costs us money. Cycling saves us money.  European policy needs to reflect this, says ECF's Environment and Health Policy Officer, Benoit Blondel.   You may wonder what a transport externality is. Put simply, they are...

Spain is proposing some rather nasty legislation, which includes a compulsory helmet law. ECF's Road Safety Officer, Ceri Woolsgrove, explains why this is bad news.  We spoke last year about Spain looking to implement a helmet law.  Well it looks...

About ECF's UK members ECF’s member groups in the UK include Cyclenation, the umbrella group of city cycling campaigns, CTC the national cyclists’ organisation and Sustrans the sustainable transport charity. All played a big part in the campaigns...

Chloe Mispelon, ECF's adventurous French Communications officer, travelled over 4,000 kilometres from Brussels to Istanbul last summer. She believes it was the trip of a lifetime, and that others should take up the challenge. Most people would be a...

ECF has launched its cycling touring web platform, www.eurovelo.com, which provides a wealth of information to those wishing to cycle the EuroVelo routes, a long distance cycle network crisscrossing Europe. The web portal, www.eurovelo.com provides...

About Earth Hour According to organisers, Earth Hour is the single, largest, symbolic mass participation event in the world. It inspires a global community of millions of people in 7,001 cities and towns across 152 countries and territories to...

Cycle Pathways in Stevenage, UK. The tale of Stevenage (UK) provides a cautionary lesson to bicycle advocates across Europe.  How many times have bicycle advocates asked themselves, what should I do to get more people cycling? Our conclusion is...

Bici Libera Tutti” is the City of Venice Bike the Track initiative which rewards young people between the age of 13 and 15 who travel by bike for leisure. The challenge begins with “Boost my bike” on the 6th of March: the workshop in which young...

ECF’s representative to the Platform on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, Dr Randy Rzewnicki, explains why and what it’s about. EU action on nutrition & physical activity A short film released by EU Public Health promotes daily cycling by...