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When we saw Beatrice Holiday bicycle seat covers made with vintage upholstery fabric, which slightly resembles our grandmother's old couch--at least the plastic cover helped preserve it--on Modish, we were curious. And when we checked out their shop on Etsy and discovered these brightly-colored handlebar bags which double as shoulder bags (they come with an adjustable strap)--and read their tag line, "wheel cute couture"--we were hooked!

"Camo-Flower" handlebar bike bag, vintage vinyl fabric. Credit: Beatrice Holiday

The Denver-based company makes...

A few years back, Randy Cohen, writer of the NY Times Magazine "The Ethicist" column, visited the Streetfilms set for a unprecedented interview with Mark Gorton about "Transportation Ethics.".  Well we wanted to talk more, so this time we got out of the studio to take a two-wheeled jaunt around New York City and visit many of his favorite spots and take in the alfresco enchantment of the capital of the world.

As you'll see during our ten mile journey, Mr. Cohen offered up some very decisive opinions about car-free Central Park, weighed in on the ethics of  "bike salmoning...

San Francisco set a new record for Bike to Work Day this year. Bicyclists accounted for 75 percent of the morning roadway traffic on Market Street, a big increase over last year.

Throw in sunny skies, some new shiny green bike lanes, just-installed bike corrals, door zone warnings, and other infrastructure, and you realize there was quite a bit to celebrate. Hear from the Mayor, members of the Board of Supervisors, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and bike commuters about why this year's Bike to Work Day was so great. See video here at Streetfilms.org

Scrambling down the stairs, looking for a clean pair of jeans it dawned on me. I am going to be late to yet another meeting! TfL had contacted me last Friday to see if I wanted to test the new cycle hire scheme bike. I was happy to oblige but with a pending trip to Argentina in three days I was finding myself even less organised than usual. As I powered my way through London to get to Victoria Street and the TfL press offices I pondered how many people had tried out the bike. I must be in the first few. Also, what would the bike be like? Fast, slow, comfortable, cumbersome?

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New York (CNN) -- When writer-actor John Leguizamo shows up to do a show in New York, fans outside the theater are surprised to see him ride up on a bicycle. "People go, 'Hey, John, I thought you'd be in a limo.'

"This is my limo, my green limo. I'm saving the planet for your kids and your grandkids," says the performer, who has starred in award-winning one-man shows on Broadway and appeared in dozens of films and TV shows.

Biking gets you places faster, reduces your carbon footprint, lowers noise, makes you fit and lowers your stress level -- unless...

David Cameron's cycling travails continued this morning when he stepped out of his home in Notting Hill to discover that his bike had been stolen for the second time in a year.

The Tory leader was spared the prospect of catching the bus to work when his Parliamentary aide offered up his own bicycle and told his boss that he would run to Westminster instead.

Desmond Swayne, the MP for New Forest West, said: "His need was greater; the party would have expected nothing less."

Mr Cameron arrived safely in time for his weekly briefing ahead of Prime Minister's Questions,...

Anne and Patrick indicated they'd had some indication of maintenance options from Egressive, but didn't have it avaialbe on Saturday. I'm interested to see the option and prices , as well as knowing

if Egressive have us locked in to using them. They host the site, and presumably we pay them for that. does the hosting contract have an element of maintenance and security built in since the site was also developed by them?

What thigns are we free to take on ourselves?

what things are we free to contract out to other parties? presumably some of this can occur as I understand...

Portland, Oregon is becoming a premier location for cargo bike innovation - Clever Cycles blazed this trail in 2007 by starting to import Dutch Bakfiets cargo boxes and other specialty cargo solutions, and Joe-Bike and Metrofiets are taking a lead in handmade custom-built cargo bikes. There's so much happening that it can be a little daunting for the uninitiated. If you already know that you'll want to haul kids and cargo on a utility bike but have a low threshold for tech talk, how do you figure out what works? Mostly by test driving - it turns out that choosing a cargo bike and...

The creative team at Elements cafe who will be catering for us on Saturday would like to know how many of us prefer not to eat our animal friends. In the interests of expediency please mail me directly and i will communicate to Scott at elements.

benefieldn@npdc.govt.nz

Thanks a million

Nathaniel