Dublin bike scheme set for tenfold expansion

A TENFOLD expansion of the Dublin bike scheme from 500 to 5,000 bikes, which will be available to use from UCD to DCU, is planned by Dublin City Council

Let’s see similar schemes for Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford etc. …

The bike podcast: Podium girls, bike rage and the Brompton

Do podium girls belong in modern cycling? How can you control bike rage? And the secrets of the Brompton folding bicycle. UK Guardian

Cycling Maps

Here’s what they’re doing in London: Leading the campaign for a simple London cycle map: Campaigners are calling for the cycling equivalent of tube map to make it easier to get around the capital on two wheels

Similar concept to our map …

Google Groups circulation list

Our e-mail circulation list is now a Google Group: Limerick Cycling

You can use this link to manage your own membership and view & manage e-mails on-line; also use this link to join this Google Group

Limerick Cycling

Visit this group

Beauty and Bike Documentary

Beauties on their bikes

From the Copenhagenize weblog

Cycling articles from the Guardian Newspaper (UK)

• Cyclists v drivers? They’re often the same people: Research suggests a boom in cycling among affluent ‘mid-life crisis’ men and car owners
• Safe cycling – without a helmet
• Lorry drivers have no more excuses when it comes to cycling blind spots; A new campaign calls for transport firms to send their HGV drivers on cycle-awareness courses and fit their vehicles with cameras

Dublin Bike Hire Scheme

More than 37,000 use bike scheme

Roll on the Limerick Bike Hire Scheme!

Cycling on footpaths

Limerick Leader: Wheelchair user Greg, 42, concerned over public’s attitude to the disabled

Irish Times: Bad behaviour on our roads

Irish Times: Madam, – The Dublin Cycling Campaign decries lawbreaking by rogue cyclists, particularly the worst infraction for a cyclist – failing to respect pedestrians’ right to peaceful enjoyment of their journeys. As vulnerable road users, cyclists must surely show exaggerated respect for those even more vulnerable.

Cycle Locks

Video: Lock it or lose it

Bike Week 2010

Bike Week 2010; Events, by county

Limerick Cycling will staff “secure cycle parking” / promotional stand Thu – Sat (17 – 19 June), Bedford Row

Press coverage: Limerick Leader / Limerick Independent