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Guardian Cities cycle week

As Velo-city 2017 gets under way, we spend a week exploring the good and bad of urban cycling around the world

17 June 2017

  • Chinese commuters ride shared bicycles

    The 8 best cycling innovations: from dockless bikes to solid tyres

    Smart traffic lights, bike paths in high-rises and paying people to cycle are among the trends that stood out at the recent Velo-City 2017 conference

16 June 2017

  • What our cycling community discussed this week...

    'We shared the road, our hopes and visions': a week of cycle conversations

    We dared you to strike up a conversation with a fellow cyclist as part of Guardian Cities Cycle Week. Here’s what happened
  • North-South Cycle Superhighway on Blackfriars Bridge, London, UK

    Ignore the toxic myth about bike lanes and pollution – the facts utterly debunk it

    Peter Walker
    A series of articles in conservative media are pushing the bizarre argument that separated bike lanes worsen air quality. Here’s why it’s rubbish
  • Democrats and Republicans addressed a pro-bicycle rally at Denver Civic Center in October 1972.

    Pedal-ins and car burials: what happened to America's forgotten 1970s cycle boom?

    ‘Bicycle madness’ once saw US bike sales outstrip cars, and spawned ambitious plans for 100,000 miles of cycle paths. Then the music stopped

15 June 2017

  • The Chain Effect

    'Beirut is more beautiful by bike': street art reinvents a notorious city – in pictures

  • Cycling the city quiz

    Can you guess the city from its bike lane maps?

  • Child cycling in Denmark

    What all urban planners should be asked: would you let your child cycle here?

    Klaus Bondam
  • Cleveland police officers block an intersection during a demonstration

    The new horsemen: how American riot police embraced the bicycle

14 June 2017

  • A man cycles in Atta Gujran, outside New Delhi, as school girls wait for the bus

    'I do it for the triumph': can your bike commute compare to these five stories?

    From Nairobi to New Orleans, the obstacles are different – but the competition with cars and sense of freedom are the same. Share your cycling story with us
  • Helen Pidd

    I love cycling. But I drive – because I fear for my life

    Helen Pidd
    While my London friends upgrade their carbon frames, my Manchester pals splurge on personalised number plates. Is it any wonder, when bike schemes up north seem designed to wipe us all out?
  • Data captured by a Google AV visualised.

    Street wars 2035: can cyclists and driverless cars ever co-exist?

    Driverless cars appear unstoppable – except of course you can simply walk in front of one and force it to brake. Could this conundrum eventually mean a return to a dystopian world of segregated urban highways?

13 June 2017

  • A still from At Five in the Afternoon, a film set in post-Taliban Afghanistan, directed by Iranian Samira Makhmalbaf.

    Harassment, stigma and fatwas: what is it like to cycle as a woman?

  • People walk at the street at Gronland district in Oslo, Norway

    Oslo's car ban sounded simple enough. Then the backlash began

12 June 2017

  • Iranian women ride their bikes at Tehran’s ‘Mothers’ Paradise’ park, the Iranian capital’s women-only public recreation area.

    'They said girls don't ride bikes': Iranian women defy the cycling fatwa

  • Cyclists in Cambridge

    Cycle week challenge: strike up a conversation with a fellow cyclist

  • Darrell and his unicycle with a Guardian tote bag at the London World Naked Bike Ride, Saturday 10 June 2017. Thousands of riders on took part in the London World Naked Bike Ride this weekend, which raises awareness of issues such as safety of cyclists on the road, reducing oil dependence and saving the planet.

    Guardian Cities cycle week: what it is and how you can get involved

  • Mobike share bikes in Beijing. The company has started operations in Singapore, and will place 1,000 bikes on the streets of Manchester today.

    'Uber for bikes': Chinese firm eyes global dominion with launch in Manchester

11 June 2017

  • Participants cycle past Buckingham Palace in central London during the London world naked bike ride.

    Flash mob: the World Naked Bike Ride comes to London – in pictures

    Hundreds stripped off as the World Naked Bike Ride hit London this weekend, aimed at encouraging a ‘vision of a cleaner, safer, body-positive world’
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