bicycle

So, let’s imagine you’re all set to take the next step in your conversion to green living. Instead of driving to work, you’ve decided to ride your bike, giving yourself some much-needed exercise, bypassing the consumption of precious petroleum, sparing the earth a few tons of greenhouse-gas exhaust fumes (except for the carbon dioxide that you huff-and-puff out of your own lungs), and doing your small part to reduce traffic. Great!

If you'd like to be able to ride your bike to work, but you're not sure what path to take, then try this web site.  It has bicycle routes in over 40 countries.

These bicycles also provide clean drinking water. Wonderful modification of the bicycle!

Fantastic and funny overview of bicycling in the UK.

There are 100,000 people a day safely using Velib' in the massive urban center that is Paris, with no road rage, accidents or even near-accidents that we witnessed. I think it's time we either dispel the notion that bikes are unsafe in US traffic or change traffic so that bikes can be a significant part of the mobility mix...

Amsterdam, city of bikes. The streets are full of them, Dutch "Granny bikes" with upright handlebars piloted by stylish hipsters and real grannies. Fifty percent of people in Amsterdam ride a bike at least once a day. More...

Early in the morning we start our bicycle trip. Folowing the road signs from Novalja towards Lun we ascend and descend thrue asphalt road. After 10 kilometer we descent to the sea write to small bay Jakisnica

How about riding a tandem bike, and being able to look your companion straight in the eye?

When Calfee, a bike builder from Santa Cruz, California, started making bamboo bicycles about ten years ago, they were a novelty for his friends and relatives. It turns out that bamboo is not only eco-friendly, but also super-strong, non-corrosive, and vibration absorbing. In other words, the perfect material for a bike frame. Now his bamboo bikes are in high demand, and Calfee is finding out how his eco-friendly design could impact life in rural Africa

Forget about green cars, save the environment by riding a bicycle! The bicycle tutor shows you how to repair and maintain your bike with an excellent collection of easy to understand video tutorials.

Watch this video of the bike that generates electricity. Come see how to get exercise while producing energy at the same time!

Eco-friendly transportation just got a new name: The VeloDisco. And besides being careful of the environment, as the name auggests, the commute promises oodles of fun. This art vehicle was the central point of attraction at Burning Man 2007.

Tim Harvey circled the world using only human-powered transportation. He insists, “If I can make it around the world without burning emissions, then surely just about anyone can make it to work or school, and we can all cut a huge amount of emissions and stabilize the global climate.”

Randy Cohen, the man who sorts out readers' ethical dilemmas in his NY Times Magazine feature column The Ethicist , weighs in on the automobile's impact on urban life.

Handmade using only vegetable and essential oils, organic herbs and spices and ... bike power! A unique invention that pairs a bicycle power train with a soap-mixing vat lets our soap makers literally pedal their way through every batch without electricity