Cycling couple break three world records for largest GPS drawing, aiming to raise awareness for cycling's effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions and to build political support for the necessary investment to make cycling accessible to everyone.

CEO Jill Warren becomes the first ECF staff member to speak to TEDx Talks, touching on the benefits of cycling and development of cycling infrastructure in Brussels before expressing the importance of cycling in her own personal life.

According to a recent study, the total running cost of a car can be nearly €13,000 per year. Using similar parameters, ECF’s Ceri Woolsgrove breaks down how much money can potentially be saved by switching to a bicycle instead.

ECF, CIE and CONEBI welcome the European Commission’s “Efficient and Green Mobility” package, which elevates cycling to a priority level across the whole European Union, the successful result of two years of hard work and targeted advocacy.

12,000 more participants took part in the Bike to Work 2021 campaign compared to the previous year. A total of 15.6 million kilometres were covered by cyclists throughout Switzerland, a distance equivalent to 40 trips to the moon!

ECF welcomes the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality as the newest member of Cities & Regions for Cyclists, a network bringing together local and regional administrations that actively work to promote the bicycle as a mode of transport and leisure.

For the first time ever, the Spanish government has approved a national cycling strategy. With the recent declaration that €3 billion of Spain’s Recovery Plan will be allocated to active mobility, the Spanish cycling renaissance has truly begun...

The world will need much more cycling if we are to overcome climate change, the most urgent crisis of our times. If we succeed, the 2020s could be the decade when the way we transport ourselves stopped being the problem and became part of the...

In 2020, Italy introduced new innovative methods for reorganising street space as part of its COVID-19 recovery strategy. Two specialised decrees reformed road laws to include five new methods for dedicating road space to cyclists.

18 March 2021 marks the one-year anniversary of the first of many coronavirus-related traffic changes in Brussels, the notoriously car-centric “capital of Europe”. Could the pandemic be the event that turbo-charged Brussels’ transformation towards...

8 March, or how and why the International Women’s Day became an unavoidable ‘’rendez-vous”. In a world still marked by inequality, let’s take a moment to celebrate women’s achievements, to raise awareness on...

The Bicycle Barometer of 2019 in Spain , elaborated by ECF Cities & Regions for Cyclist member Red de Ciudades por la Bicicleta (RCxB), shows that the use of bicycles has grown by 2 points since 2017. An increase driven by Spanish women, who...