Big List o' Useful Links
Submitted by ride on Mon, 2006-01-23 00:47
Links relevant to bike commuting and bike advocacy
Calgary-area
- Calgary Bike-To-Work Day; site contains many cycling tips
- Calgary BikeRoots; Personalised routes for getting around Calgary
- City of Calgary Cycling Introduction
- City of Calgary Cycle Plan (1996)
- Calgary Pathway & Bikeway Plan (PDF)
- 2006 Bikepaths map (on-line and PDF versions)
- Calgary's bikepaths
- Calgary Commuter Challenge
- Calgary Mountain Bike Alliance
- Bicisport Bicycle Club
Track, road and mountain-bike racing club - Crankmasters Cycling Club Masters-age cycling club
- Deadgoat Racing Mountain bike racing team and cycling club
- Elbow Valley Cycle Club Western Canada's largest touring club
- Highwood Cycling Club (High River)
- Spin Sisters Mountain-biking club
- Alberta Randonneurs
- The Lazy Randonneur (Vik Banerjee's blog)
Alberta
British Columbia
- Cycling in Vancouver City of Vancouver cycling plan, route info and map
- Bikes on Transit in Vancouver support for bike-transit integration in Vancouver
- Vancouver Bicycle Club
- Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition
- Vancouver critical mass and more
Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon list of bicycle links
- Saskatoon Cycling Club
Manitoba
- Winnipeg's Bike To The Future
Ontario
- Shifting Gears City of Toronto Bike Plan
- BikeToronto
- Biking Toronto
- I Bike T.O.
- Bike-commuting tips videos short videos from the City of Toronto
- Velo-City an elevated bike-commuting network for Toronto
- Citizens for Safe Cycling user group in Ottawa
Québec
- Vélo Québec provincial advocacy group
- Montréal Bike Map (PDF)
Canada-wide
- Momentum Magfor self-propelled people
- Pedal Mag, Canada's on-line magazine
California
Colorado
New York
- Transportation Alternatives
bike advocacy in New York City
Oregon
- Bike Transportation Alliance< bike advocacy in Oregon
- Shift To Bikes
- Bike & pedestrian statutes (PDF)
Laws affecting cyclists and pedestrians in Oregon
Texas
- Bicycle Austin bicycling as alternative transportation, with emphasis on Austin, TX
United States national sites
- BikeRoute.com bike routes in many U.S. cities
- Building bike-friendly communities
Australia
- Yarra BUG cyclists' user group in Yarra, a suburb of Melbourne
- Stonnington Cycle Plan (PDF) in a suburb of Melbourne
- Bike Victoria state bicycling organization
France
- Vélotaf.com
a Paris-based site with forums promoting transportation cycling (in french); you can also download a Vélotaf Mac OS X dashboard widget
Rest of the world
General bike commuting
- Paul Dorn's Commuting tips
Excellent multi-page article covering all aspects of bike commuting - Ten Tips
from bikecommute.com - Street Smarts
from bikexprt.com - Bike Commuting Tips
from dahon.com - stories from California
- Bike commuting on squidoo.com
- How not to get hit by cars, by bicyclesafe.com
- Oregon 2006 Bicyclist Manual (PDF)
General bike advocacy
- Get a shared-use car from Calgary Alternative Transportation Co-op
- Bike planning papers by Richard Drdul
- Bikes Belong
Coalition of bicycle equipment suppliers to get more bums on bike-seats - cicle.org
Los-Angeles based bike advocacy group, with some worldwide news coverage - commutebybike.com
New York based bike-commuting advocacy group, with some bike reviews - cyclemedia.org
- Go By Bicycle
reasons to travel by bicycle - Car-free in Los Angeles
short video on commuting by skateboard - Transportation Almanac
statistics about cars, energy, pollution, bikes and more - Behavioural change model for bike-to-work week campaigns
ideas from Victoria, BC
Bike Safety
- Dangers of sidewalk riding
it's actually safer on the road
Bike fora (forums)
- 'Bent Rider OnLine forum
- Bicycling Magazine forum
- Bikeforums.net forum
- Canadian Cyclist
- Cyclingforums.com forum
- Mountain Bike Review forum
- Ride Monkey forum
Bike-related humour
- RoadKill Bill
comic strip about a car-less society
Other
- 1000bikelinks.de
over 4000 bike-related links (in German) - bikelane.com
a comprehensive list of cycling-related links - lightbike.net
over 1000 cycling-related links (in Norwegian) - Mike's Mega bicycle links
comprehensive list well organised by topic - Sheldon Brown's bike links
Lots of links to manufacturers, and clubs & organisations - Velospace.org listings of readers' cool bikes

