Maria Popova on June 17, 2010, 4:22 PMOver the past few years, bike-sharing systems have gained popularity around the world, experimenting with different models of building a sustainable mode of alternative transportation – from the ad-supported models of Europe's three largest bike-sharing systems in Paris, Barcelona and Lyon, to Montreal's user-funded program. In the US, however, cities have been slow to implement a bike-sharing program, despite many of the country's largest cities – from Boston to Chicago to Philadelphia to New York – pushing and lobbying to get efforts...

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The new RiderLog app records basic details of your trips and anonymously uploads them to the Bicycle Network. All the travel logs are then aggregated to show when, where and why we are riding. This information is used to improve the planning of bike infrastructure and convince authorities to invest more in the locations where people ride. The Bicycle Network is an outreach activity of Bicycle Victoria in Australia, one of the worlds biggest bike rider organisations, with the purpose of More People Cycling More Often. More at www.bicyclenetwork.com.au      &n...

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Warning: Do not follow the link below unless you have a half-hour or so to spare. Bicycle Portraits will be a hardback book of photographs and transcribed conversations with cyclists in South Africa. Right now it exists as a fascinating web gallery that will swallow your entire coffee break.There’s something about seeing a person with their bike that shows a lot more than a straight portrait. It’s like seeing the contents of their bag, or peeking into their kitchen cupboards, only less voyeuristic and – for bike nerds at least – way more interesting. Combine that wit...

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Bicycles = a basic everyday need, a companion, a outlet, a livelyhood, a future.  Well done Stan and Nic and good luck with the rest of the journey!Support them now!Bicycle Portraits 1 from Bicycle Portraits on Vimeo.

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Sydney: the city that hates bikesMATTHEW MOOREMarch 13, 2010Born to ride ... traffic in King Street, Newtown. Photo: Kate GeraghtySydney is one of the developed world's most hostile cities for cycling, according to a US academic who spent a sabbatical year researching ways to boost bike-riding levels in the city.''I did not cycle that often because I almost got killed several times - people cutting me off, squeezing me off the road and not stopping,'' John Pucher said of his efforts to ride to Sydney University from his Stanmore home.''Whether I was a pedestrian or cyclist I found the...

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