Urban cycling is healthy, safe and could help lay the foundations of a more resilient economy for the post-COVID-19 Europe. Millions of Europeans still have to move for work or for other needs. They said they urge all EU authorities to allow cycling and to ensure it remains a safe option. Social distancing is the new norm regulating all public spaces. But they quoted that they register reports of Ministers and Mayors from all continents recommending their citizens to cycle to work or to shops in order to avoid crowded public transport and still be physically active. “Cycling is the perfect ac ..read more

  Seasoned bicycle traveler and writer Hilary Oliver has spent some time isolated from the rest of the world. Take a note or two out of her handbook to endure the social distancing of COVID-19, and check out her other article for Adventure Cyclist magazine, Huckleberry Bike Tour. Before employees can work a winter at a U.S. Antarctic research station, they have to prove they can handle the isolation by passing a psychological evaluation. Right now, I’m betting a lot of us wish our partners, roommates, and spouses had passed that test or something like it before they wound up social d ..read more

Cycling Importance in COVID-19 COVID19 is seriously impacting our society and everyone’s daily life. Respecting social distance and staying home as much as possible is – quite literally – vital. But among all these measures and restriction, is there still a place for bicycle? Could it even contribute to implement these measures? Could it create opportunities and offers solutions?  Respect essential measures From nationwide curfews to school shutdowns, European authorities are creating a patchwork of measures to stop or slow down the spread of Corona ..read more

  In these fast-changing weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, guidelines change by the minute. So before you set out awheel, make sure your jurisdiction has OK’d Pedaling in a Coronavirus Pandemic (at the time of this writing, U.S. readers appear good to go, but those in Italy and Spain need to wait a bit longer). And consider focusing on the “bike” part of bike travel — keep close to home when riding, and maybe trade out some time in the saddle for some time in the bike stand. It is spring cleaning season, after all. To get some guidance, we reached out to Bruce Bernard, an Adventure Cycli ..read more

If you are a cyclist who own a vehicle as well, how do you fancy lower cost car insurance for cyclists? We probably all like to think that we are good drivers, but here is an interesting thing: it has been noticed by an insurance company that cyclists DO make better car drivers, perhaps because we know what it is like to have to avoid potholes etc and hate having vehicles pass us too closely. 35 year old specialist broker Chris Knott Insurance has set up carinsurance4cyclists.com (Ci4C) and is the first in the UK to observe the relationship between road cycling and a clean driving record, rewa ..read more

A report shows that when bike lanes are built, people cycle more and drive less   Cycling Investment Plan Photograph Source  PIXABAY The most successful routes were segregated from motor traffic, rather than just painted onto roads. If you took a time machine back to John Dobson Street in central Newcastle in 2013, you’d be struck by its transformation in the years since. An inhospitable dual carriageway has been replaced by a single carriageway with wider pavements and a 400m bike lane. The result: a fourfold increase in people cycling along the route. Initial findings from a govern ..read more

By 2050, the European Commission has the ambition to make Europe the first net-zero carbon emission continent, as highlighted in the European Green Deal. It has also stressed the importance of multimodality, particularly regarding longer distances. The combination of train and bicycle is the most efficient and sustainable combination of transport modes to achieve these goals. Train and bicycle – Let’s be the greenest combination Transport accounts for a quarter of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions and its share continues to grow. A German study estimated ..read more

As a wave of UK cities take action on motor vehicles to meet climate targets, the Sustrans Bike Life report shows public support to reduce car use and make it easier for people to cycle. Over half of residents (58%) in UK major urban areas support more investment to increase cycling, compared to 42% for driving. The Bike Life report, published by the charity Sustrans and 12 major cities and urban areas, found more than one in two (55%) of residents agreed with the statement that there are too many people driving in their area. Overall, the public supports measures to reduce motor vehicle use ..read more

A report from Deloitte has predicted bicycles are set to conquer the 2020s, saying that “tens of billions of additional bicycle trips per year will take place in 2022 over 2019 levels”… and those new cyclists are not going away anytime soon. The next decade will also be marked by many challenges and social disruptions that will be in turn fuelled by fundamental transformations in technology, society, and the environment. A bicycle for every challenge According to the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions 2020 report recently published by Deloitte, approximately 3 million peopl ..read more

Sharing and Segregating: Cycling Safety Through Infrastructure – the views of the ECF and the European Transport Safety Council have just been published. Cycling can be one of the major contributors to shifting mobility away from polluting and passive modes of transport, towards cleaner, emissions free and active modes of transport in the EU. With the European Commission launching its European Green deal, in a so-called “man on the moon” moment, at the end of last year, now is the time for ambitious support for cycling as a primary force within European policy making, pushing for a modal shift ..read more