"First there was Slow Food and then Slow Travel, Slow Companies, Slow Planet, etc. The time is ripe for Slow Bicycle."In 2008, a group of relaxed cyclists founded the Slow Bicycle Movement as a way to "take cycling back" from the spandex-wearing, 21-gear-using, speed-loving weekend warriors and return it ... read more

It's easy to assume once you have a couple of kids, your days of freewheeling are numbered. One kid seat might be doable, but two, and with groceries? The Dutch have a cyclist's answer to the minivan. It's called a "bakfiets"- a cargobike that resembles a rideable ... read more

There are more bicycles than people in the Netherlands: 18 million bikes for 16.3 million people. There are less than 7 million cars. The average Dutch person cycles 902km, or 560 miles, per year. In a country where there are more than twice as many bicycles as cars, most ... read more