Italian-British couple, Arianna Casiraghi and Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope, along with their dog Zola, cycled 7,237 km to draw a huge shape of a bicycle across the m...Cycling couple break three world records for largest GPS drawing, aiming to raise awareness for cycling's effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions and to build politica...
Do you remember how it felt the first time you rode a bike? In September 2021, Jill Warren, CEO of the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF), delivered an inspiri...CEO Jill Warren becomes the first ECF staff member to speak to TEDx Talks, touching on the benefits of cycling and development of cycling infrastructure in Brussels befor...
I recently came across an interesting article in the scientific journal, Ecological Economics, which looks at the total costs of owning a car. Focusing on Germa...According to a recent study, the total running cost of a car can be nearly €13,000 per year. Using similar parameters, ECF’s Ceri Woolsgrove breaks down how much money ca...
On 14 December, the European Commission presented its “Efficient and Green Mobility” package with revised legislative proposals on the Trans-European Transport...ECF, CIE and CONEBI welcome the European Commission’s “Efficient and Green Mobility” package, which elevates cycling to a priority level across the whole European Union,...
EUROBIKE is the undisputed leading global trade fair for the bike business. Here the bicycle industry networks itself, convinces its trade partners and presents...
People who cycle to their office do so to avoid the difficulties of city parking and to exercise as part of a healthier lifestyle. Others cycle because they car...12,000 more participants took part in the Bike to Work 2021 campaign compared to the previous year. A total of 15.6 million kilometres were covered by cyclists throughout...
As Turkey’s third-largest city, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) holds a very important place within the local administration of Izmir. In such large and g...ECF welcomes the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality as the newest member of Cities & Regions for Cyclists, a network bringing together local and regional administrations...
On 8 June, Spain adopted its first ever National Cycling Strategy. With a budget of €5 million (as defined in the General State Budget 2021), the Strategy repre...For the first time ever, the Spanish government has approved a national cycling strategy. With the recent declaration that €3 billion of Spain’s Recovery Plan will b...
World Bicycle Day, 3 June, may only come around once a year, but this decade could see the bicycle reclaim a central place in our societies – and mitigate the w...The world will need much more cycling if we are to overcome climate change, the most urgent crisis of our times. If we succeed, the 2020s could be the decade when the way...
Thanks to sustained advocacy action from the Federazione Italiana Ambiente e Bicicletta (FIAB), Italy has successfully capitalised on the extraordinary situatio...In 2020, Italy introduced new innovative methods for reorganising street space as part of its COVID-19 recovery strategy. Two specialised decrees reformed road laws to in...
18 March 2021 marks the one-year anniversary of the first of many coronavirus-related traffic changes in Brussels, the notoriously car-centric “capital of Euro...
8 March, or how and why the International Women’s Day became an unavoidable ‘’rendez-vous”. In a world still marked by inequality, let’...