General News
New Directors Strengthen We Ride Australia’s Board
Melbourne, Victoria We Ride Australia, the bicycle industry funded peak national cycling advocacy group, elected three new directors at its annual general meeting in Melbourne on Wednesday 27th November. Steven Kaye, Shane Byrne and Paul Oosting are the three newly announced directors. We Ride was hoping to also appoint at least one female director, but…
Unsung Heroes Honoured at 2024 Australian Cycling Luminaries Awards
Docklands, Victoria Since 2002 people who have been responsible for great projects that advance many different aspects of cycling have been honoured at the annual Australian Cycling Luminaries Awards. This year’s awards were presented at Docklands in Melbourne at Deakin Downtown, a campus of Deakin University. RideScore Active Schools Evaluation Report Before this year’s awards…
Parting Thoughts from One of the World’s Key Cycling Advocates
Brussels, Belgium At the end of 2024, Kevin Mayne is retiring as CEO of Cycling Industries Europe (CIE). We took the opportunity to talk with Kevin about his decades long career in cycling advocacy in the December edition of our Micromobility Report Podcast that you can see here. Kevin is an Englishman who took a…
World News Briefs – December 2024
Paris Restricts Through-Traffic in City Center A long-planned ban on private cars driving through the heart of the French capital is the latest part of Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s campaign to cut pollution and congestion. Back in May 2021 authorities floated a plan to establish a Zone à Trafic Limité — “Limited Traffic Zone,” or ZTL…
World News Briefs
UK Moving Towards Banning E-bikes & E-scooters From All Government Property. The Government Property Agency (GPA) has banned e-scooters and modified e-bikes from all government buildings and land. A position statement on the matter also says that other e-bikes will have to be parked in external car parks or open-air areas and that battery charging…
Zipidi is Finalist in UK’s Electrical Safety First Innovation Awards
Australian e-mobility advisory company Zipidi has been named as one of four global finalists in the Electrical Safety First Innovation Awards in the United Kingdom.This nomination specifically relates to Zipidi’s Buy Safe program, which significantly mitigates the risks associated with lithium-ion batteries and e-mobility devices, such as e-bikes and e-scooters. Buy Safe, Zipidi’s innovative trust…
Active Transportation Lessons from London for Australia
London, UK Recently I spent a week in London enjoying glorious mid-summer sunshine and 9:30 pm sunsets while my colleagues in Australia were enjoying a record mid-winter cold snap. Ahh… that felt good to write! But it wasn’t all beer and skittles, as they say in the UK. Back in March when I made my…
Update Your Listing! New Micromobility Portal Now Open
Late last year we launched the first annual Micromobility Report Yearbook. This is a sourcing guide that we publish in both online flipbook and print formats. The Micromobility Report Yearbook follows the proven format of its sister publication, The Latz Report Yearbook that has been successfully serving the Australian bicycle trade since 1996. Even in…
Biketober – Getting More People Cycling
Melbourne, Victoria Biketober is a free initiative, funded by City of Melbourne, RACV (Royal Automobile Club of Victoria) and a number of other supporting councils. It’s designed to both promote and inspire people to try riding for the first time and those that do already to ride more. This will be the second year of…
Lebron James – Cycling Advocate
Akron, Ohio, USA Even most non-sporting fans have heard of LeBron James, who in addition to being arguably the greatest basketball player of all time, is also one of the richest sportspeople of all time with a net worth of A$1.9 billion in 2024 according to Forbes magazine. But far fewer people would know that…