Watch later today for a chance to win a copy of David Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries. It’ll be a quiz question, and the first to answer correctly either as a comment here or as a response to me on Twitter wins the book.

Bikes as transportation and shields during the G20 Summit Meeting in Toronto yesterday. Hover over the photos for captions and attribution.

(UPDATE:  Reed Bates’ bail was reduced from $5000 to $300 earlier today.  Yes, that’s $5000 for a bicycling offense.) (UPDATE, SUNDAY MORNING: Bates was released at 4:15PM yesterday. Trial date on July 29 in Waxahachie. Possibly on all pending charges.) The story of Reed Bates and his struggles with the legal system in Ennis, Texas, […]

Apparently a good time was had by all last night when the Los Angeles police joined LA Critical Mass.

Toronto writer Micah Toub writes about “2 wheels = sex appeal” for his column in today’s Globe. He talks with Momentum Magazine‘s Amy Walker for the female perspective on dudes who bike. To get an, ahem, unbiased opinion from a woman, I talked to Amy Walker, one of the founders of Momentum, a Vancouver-based magazine […]

Portugal soccer captain Cristiano Ronaldo rides a bicycle.