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The nation’s largest bike share is finally starting in New York City
DestinationsNew York City, with its constant hum of subways, buses, cabs and ferries, has long had one glaring exception to its many transportation options: bicycles for the masses. But bike sharing is finally coming to the Big Apple, which could help the city overcome its reputation as a commuter obstacle course of speeding cabbies, horn-honking [...]
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Cycling is the new golf: Business travel industry, are you listening?
SkiftXTraditionally, business associates would get to know each other over a round of golf. But road cycling is fast catching up as the preferred way of networking for the modern professional. A growing number of corporate-sponsored charity bike rides and city cycle clubs are providing an ideal opportunity to talk shop with like-minded colleagues and [...]
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New magazine watch: For the love of bicycle travels
DigitalFor all the talk about the death of print and magazine industry, there are still a surprisingly high number of travel and travel-lifestyle magazines that exist, and new ones that get launched every year. With digital, launching a magazine — especially a digital-only magazine with custom print run — has become a lot easier, with [...]
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London mayor copies the Dutch and plans 15-mile bike route around capital
DestinationsLondon Mayor Boris Johnson plans to build a 15-mile bike route across the U.K. capital as part of a 913 million-pound ($1.37 billion) plan to boost cycling. The east-west track, which will follow Dutch examples in segregating bicycles from other traffic, will be one of Europe’s longest, Johnson said in a statement from the Greater [...]
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Round-the-world travel bloggers killed in Thailand road accident
DestinationsA British couple’s round-the-world cycling odyssey ended in tragedy when both of them were killed in a road accident in Thailand. Peter Root and Mary Thompson, who had been chronicling their journey in a blog, died Wednesday when they were hit by a pickup truck in a province east of Bangkok, Thai police said Monday. [...]
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The cycling race that nobody knows about: Tour du Rwanda boosts sports tourism in Africa
DestinationsU.S., Nov. 18 — Rwanda’s annual cycling tour is underway at the national Amahoro Stadium with the first of the 8 stages this year taking riders across the capital of Kigali. 15 teams from 8 African countries and beyond are competing for the honors, a …
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The U.S.’s bike share programs just keep getting better
TransportBike share programs are spreading across the United States like carbon-reducing wildfire. Since the launch of the first modern U.S. bike-share system in 2008 (yes, the system has been around for decades, but 2008 was the first theft-proof and functioning system), 29 have popped up. In 2012 alone, eight new cities have set up bike [...]
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France plans on capitalizing on the multi-billion-dollar trend surrounding cycle tourism
DestinationsCycling tourism is one of the biggest growth sectors in tourism. A new study says it’s worth €44 billion per annum to Europe. According to the new study…there are an estimated 2.295 billion cycle tourism trips in Europe with a value in excess of €44 billion per annum. “France has seen an important growth in [...]
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SkyCycle concept puts bikes above London streets for less congestion, better views
TransportIn large metropolitan cities it is no surprise that people use bikes as their main form of transportation, sometimes even more than buses, trains and cars. A new concept is hitting the ground, or should we say sky in London… elevated bike lanes in the city center. Cyclists would pay a pound or two to [...]
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The latest Airbnb of something is Splinster, the you-know-what of bikes
TransportDid you know that there are over a billion bicycles on Earth, with around 100 million just in the United States? Sadly, not all of those are used daily, so there’s a lot of room to increase the usage of those bikes by getting unused bikes to the people who want to use them (either [...]
