"Everytime I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." H. G. Wells / Inspiring Quotes
Action Ideas[]
- Cycle maps
- Cycle days or events
- Dr Bike days
- Getting cycle lanes created
- Adequate places for cyclists to lock their bikes
- Quiet Lanes
- Tax-free bike buying 'Cycle to Work' schemes
- Bicycle trailers, etc. eg to help with Growing and gardening
- community-run bicycle workshop, see for example Tumeke Cycle Space in Auckland, New Zealand
Campaigns UK[]
- Cities fit for cycling campaign, The Times
Diary UK[]
- 18 June 2007 e-petition - to "Listen to cyclists and not approve the revised highway code." Deadline to sign up by: 18 June 2007
Resources[]
- How to prevent your bike from getting piranha’d londoncyclist.co.uk, 09. Sep, 2010
- Get cycling / Avoid theft, info from Transport for London
Random facts[]
- In 2006-07, spending on cycling in England amounted to a tiny 0.3% of the overall transport budget and in Wales the figure was just 0.4%. Source: Campaign for Better Transport, April 28 2008
- Transport for London has installed 10,000 cycling parking spaces across the capital in the past two years, August 9 2007. Source: GLA
- The number of cyclists on London’s major roads has increased by 72 per cent since 2000. Source: Mayor of London, 4-9-2006, Research for Transport for London / London
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Wanted pages and external links
- Cycling Embassy of Great Britain
- CycleStreets, currently (January 2011) in beta, UK-wide cycle journey planner system, which lets you plan routes from A to B by bike. Designed by cyclists, for cyclists, and caters for the needs of both confident and less confident cyclists.
- Bicycology
- Cycling England
- Cycling Scotland
- Why Cycle
- Everything you wanted to know about cycling but were afraid to ask
- Sustrans
- Cyclists' Touring Club W, Cyclists Touring Club
- Life Cycle UK
- Cycling information from the Department for Transport
- Tax-free bike buying 'Cycle to Work' schemes