DreamBikes started when John Burke, president of Trek BIcycle Company, suggested the idea and then donated the seed money to open the first DreamBikes shop in Madison four years ago.

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This week New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that CitiBank would sponsor the city’s new bike share program, Citi Bike, slated to roll out this summer.

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London’s traffic is legendary and so is its traffic management system. From early 2003, the city of London started charging a fee, which is currently £10, or $16.19 to motorists who want to drive through the city center. This was called a congestion charge and it was used to improve the city’s transit system and anybody who [...]

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Last week, a team of two cyclists, Boris Mordkovich and Anna Mostovetsky, began a two and a half month, 4,000 mile ride across America on a pair of electric-assisted bicycles, to promote an awareness of electric bikes as an alternative form of transport, and to prove that their machines are a reliable and efficient way to get around.

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Yesterday in Los Angeles was CicLAvia, an event held twice a year during which 10 miles of streets are free of cars, so bicyclists, pedestrians, skaters and baby strollers can take them over.

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The Alliance for Biking and Walking just released its 2012 Benchmarking Report which details that between 2000 to 2009, the number of commuters who bike to work increased by 57 percent in the USA, and that 12 percent of all trips are now taken by bike or on foot in this country. The report also highlights bicycle [...]

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Sweden’s transportation authority, Trafikverket, has approved a four line bicycle superhighway between Malmö and nearby Lund.

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3p is proud to partner with the Presidio Graduate School’s Macroeconomics course on a blogging series about “the economics of sustainability.” This post is part of that series. To follow along, please click here. By Amanda Irene Rohlich In a rare showing of cooperation on Capitol Hill, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public [...]

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The Green Energy Park is where energy storage, solar power and smart grid technologies will provide the next level of not only innovation, but revenue streams as well.

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Bicycling has seen an unprecedented rise in popularity, support, and accessibility these days, worldwide. To be sure part of this can be credited to the faltering global economy. In the US, there’s also been a willingness on the part of both federal and state government (questionably motivated Republican threats aside) to make an investment in [...]

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COMMON launched in January as a “creative community for rapidly prototyping social change” to link entrepreneurs with the creative community.

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Marketing campaigns are usually developed after research and input from the target audience, often spanning weeks and costing tens of thousands of dollars. Yet, GM still launched an ad campaign that scorned biking and encouraged college students to spend thousands of dollars on a new car. Immediate, pervasive and sweeping outrage caused GM to quickly pull [...]

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It’s finally happening. Circumstances, public opinion and political will have aligned to create massive increases in biking infrastructure and bike sharing across the world. Bike businesses are seeing massive, sustained increases in demand, despite the troubled economic times. I must admit that with all the rosy reporting on global bike sharing companies and city schemes, I’ve [...]

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The US is moving forward on a plan to develop a national interstate bicycle highway system.

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Bicycling is an inherently sustainable form of transportation: No emissions, minimal materials required to make the vehicle, increased rider fitness, decreased auto traffic. And yet there’s a weak link in this chain: The helmet. Modern day helmets are single use, and unrecyclable when done. In other words, one crash and it’s in the trash. And [...]

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I have the good fortune of living in Portland, Oregon, where I bike commute daily. In a recent article it was reported that a former car dealership is soon opening as a 10,000 square foot bike shop and that other bike shops in town are expanding. A sign of the times or something Portland specific? [...]

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By Matt Courtland I recently spent eight days working in Amersfoort, Holland, a wonderful town full of historic sites and friendly people. During my visit I enjoyed discovering alleyways that lead to secluded courtyards, sleeping under a heavy duvet without a top bed sheet and strolling down cobblestoned streets lined with historic buildings. I also became very aware of bicycles. They are ubiquitous in [...]

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In many parts of the world, cities are actively taking steps to increase biking as a daily activity – London’s “bicycle superhighway” is the latest example, generating a staggering 70% increase in bike use in one year, even on regular streets. But there’s a hitch to getting a broader professional segment of the population on [...]

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How do you combine American’s need for the big, the fast, and the green? (Yes, we’re talking about lawn care). Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have one answer in the works: The Mowercycle by  Real Power. One of the entrants in the third annual Engineering, Mechanics and Aeronautics design competition, Mowercycle combines the size [...]

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Bicycling should defy the left-right debate. After all, it is a cheap activity, saves money, allows for freedom, can be healthy, and offers a lifestyle choice at any budget level. Costco or Walmart wheels will get you around town, or you can blow your budget on the Hummer or Ferrari of bicycles—all of which can be bought new or used.

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If you take some time to look at demographics, voting patterns, and electoral maps, it’s pretty clear that the red-blue divide is stark and falls along a fairly distinct pattern: cities, where people live and work side by side with people of multiple other races, personalities, and lifestyles tend to be dark blue. Suburbs, where [...]

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Car sharing has gone from hippie practice to popular carless urbanite tool of choice, courtesy companies like Zipcar, with old guard companies like Uhaul joining in. But what about bikes? What about when you’ve got an errand that’s a little too long for a walk, but driving would be frivolous? Various bike sharing businesses have [...]

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Google put a million bucks into Schweeb, a personal rapid transit startup, but we wish Google had chosen more pressing transportation issues to focus on…

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pledged more to cyclists last week after his attempt at a bike ride in Venice ended rudely when a taxi driver suddenly pulled out in front of him on Venice Boulevard, knocking the mayor down. The helmet saved the mayor’s head when he tumbled to the pavement, but his right elbow was not so lucky: he broke it, with the result that it took him two hours to shave the next morning. Cyclists who have had run-ins with automobiles would probably reply that a slow shave would be the least of their worries.

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The Minneapolis ad agency Cole+McVoy is linking up with the Bikes Belong coalition in launching People for Bikes, which aims to give bicycling a more sunny disposition. One of its goals: to garner one million names of support allowing bicycling to become safer, easier, and appealing.

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Have you ever wanted to get in better shape? Have you succeeded at it? Stayed with it after that? For most us, the answer is the same: We’d like to, but the motivation/discipline isn’t strong enough. With the League of American Bicyclists’ Bike To Work Day happening today, and shows like the Biggest Loser continuing [...]

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Being a Northern California Native who now lives in Los Angeles, I have to say I almost feel like a dual citizen.  Both parts of the state are starkly different and offer so much.  Food and weather?  SoCal 2, NorCal 0.  Transportation?  I miss real transit, CalTrain, and the bicycle culture in the Bay Area. [...]

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For most people without a washer and dryer, there are three choices: carry your dirty stuff to the local laundromat, drive if it’s too much to carry, or pay someone to pickup and deliver it. For all of these, there are both a business and an environmental opportunity: Bikes. Yes, as mentioned recently in Springwise, [...]

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