I’ll admit it, I love numbers. And I love bicycling, as you know. So, running across this recent statistic on one of the sites I used to write for, Earth & Industry, brought a little light to my face.

Here’s more from Alison Leahy on San Francisco’s bicycle ridership [...]

100-year-old Robert Marchand has set a world cycling record for a one-hour event by cycling 24.251 kilometers around an indoor track in Aigle, Switzerland.

“I could have gone faster but I didn’t want to,” Marchand said. Naturally.

“I’m not playing at being a champion,” he said. “I just wanted to do [...]

100-year-old Robert Marchand has set a world cycling record for a one-hour event by cycling 24.251 kilometers around an indoor track in Aigle, Switzerland.

“I could have gone faster but I didn’t want to,” Marchand said. Naturally.

“I’m not playing at being a champion,” he said. “I just wanted to do [...]

 
There are a ton of crazy conspiracy theories out there, but this one that bicycle lanes are a big government conspiracy connected with taking over your lives is one of the most absurd I can think of. It makes me want to laugh and cry both at the same time. I’ve actually avoided [...]

 
Well, if you’re an average American, James D. Schwartz of The Urban Country reports that you do. Of course, this definitely matches up with the energy efficiency of a bike versus a car, and the environmental impact of a bike versus a car. The bottom line is, whether you are average or not, bikes [...]

In case you missed these amongt the 70+ posts of the past 2 weeks, here are the top 14:

A bicycle bus! I have to admit, I didn’t see one of these when I lived in the Netherlands! (For a bunch of photos of the cool things I did see, however, check out this bicycle photo tour of Groningen.)

The Dutch company De Café Racer developed this fun bicycle-bus, [...]

Really, I’m not sure why bike companies don’t invest more money in bicycle infrastructure—it’s advertising gone wild! Communities can easily value and trust bike companies that do so, and the companies can even stick permanent advertising along the routes! Well, I don’t know if that’s what Bikes Belong’s thinking was (note that Bikes [...]

The most comprehensive map of bike-sharing programs in the world (and it is comprehensive!) hit 2 million total views this last week. After taking a few years to reach its first 1 million, it got to 2 million in just another 11 months. Screenshot of the map above. The person behind [...]

I wrote on the horrid transportation bill proposed by the House GOP at the end of last week, summarizing just how bad it was. Well, now, there are a couple of options for you to take action in opposing this bill, which the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) calls the “worst transportation bill [...]

I recently included this report, the Alliance for Biking & Walking’s 2012 Benchmarking Report, in a green living roundup post. But I’ve decided it really needs a full post. I don’t think I can out-do the Alliance’s summary of the report, so rather than try to, I’m reposting their full summary below. Check it [...]

OK, last weekly roundup of the day, here are 10 big green living stories, other than OUR green living stories, I recommend checking out (if you are into green and healthy living):

1. Nature in children’s books declining! (So sad.) “A new study finds a significant decline in the depiction [...]

1. Exxon Rakin’ in the Dough, Paying Super Low Taxes

ExxonMobil’s end-of-year financial summary shows that it made a whopping $41.1 billion in 2011 (35% more than in 2010) but only paid a 17.6% tax rate. Who lets them get away with such robbery? Congress obviously does. But so do we, if [...]

1. Exxon Rakin’ in the Dough, Paying Super Low Taxes

ExxonMobil’s end-of-year financial summary shows that it made a whopping $41.1 billion in 2011 (35% more than in 2010) but only paid a 17.6% tax rate. Who lets them get away with such robbery? Congress obviously does. But so do we, if [...]

Here’s one more awesome and inspiring bicycling video for the day. Again, it’s about living on your bike, and enjoying the freedom, high quality of life, and mental and physical health that comes from that. I don’t remember where I ran across this one. Enjoy!

What more is there to [...]

I intended to share this nearly a week ago when I ran across it. Actually, right after it was published, it seems. If you haven’t seen it yet (it’s gone a bit viral), it’s a must watch. Title = “The Man Who Lived on His Bike.”

Living in Groningen (in the Netherlands), [...]

I’ve been meaning to cover the new “Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2012 Benchmarking Report” since it was published by the Alliance for Biking and Walking  since it came out. Oy, the many stories I’m always behind on! Luckily, before I could get to it, Frankie Berti wrote a great piece on it [...]

I imagine this has blown up, so you might have seen it by now, but if not, the news is that LeBron James was snapped biking to work (a game) this last weekend. Pretty cool.

“Traffic was backed up because of a nearby marathon and LeBron decided to take another mode of transportation,”

“Cycling is part of everyone’s life, because it was made part of everyone’s life.” This film, Cycling for Everyone, is a light, moving record of health and happiness. The film shows Amsterdam as a place where sharing the road is easy and safe.

Inhabitants of this city and [...]

I just ran across this video the other day for the first time in awhile. Like the first time I saw it, I immediately thought about how it is such a wonderful advertisement for bicycling. Better than just about any bicycling video or ad I’ve ever seen, it does such a good job of capturing [...]