Please browse the categories below and see all submissions for the Cycling Visionaries Awards. The submissions will remain published in their totality of 218 ideas/projects/visions originating from 49 countries to demonstrate the global diversity of urban cycling cultures and their growing importance.
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The University of Winnipeg Students' Association's Ice Riders and their Bike Lab are gaining momentum in the creation of an active cycling culture year-round. The UWSA Bike Lab and Ice Riders are aptly positioned in location and in their capacity for education and advocacy in Winnipeg's core. They provide resources, events and education to help cyclists find their traction Winnipeg winters.
151 votes
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Bucharest is Romania's capital. In Romania it is mandatory for cyclists to use the bicycle lanes. What should a cyclist do when a bicycle lane but puts his/her life and physical integrity at risk? "Adopt a dangerous bicycle lane! Then ... abolish it!" was an event that took place in Bucharest and led to the abolishment of more than 100 kilometers of dangerous bicycle lanes from a total of 117 km.
892 votes
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The Vienna Cargobike Collective (Lastenradkollektiv-LRK) is a group of about 20 people who want to facilitate an autonomous cargo bike transport and push the idea of an almost carfree city. Founded in 2010 as a non-commercial project it works on the basis of free donations and supports local d.i.y. Initiatives. On our blog interested people can choose the most suitable among 11 cargo bikes and 9 trailers and also find all the information regarding the lending of a bike.
122 votes
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A citizen-painted shared lane for bicycles and motorized traffic running in front of the Mexican legislative office, making visible the need of resources for non-motorized infrastructure. First lane was 300 meters long, then erased by the government in less than 24 hours. Then it was repainted stretching for 5 Km.
30 votes
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This project aims at teaching refugees in Vienna how to cycle and move safely in the city. Many refugees settling in cities in Austria are not able to cycle; to change this situation in especially organized courses would enable them to fully participate in the city life, solve questions of transport and empower them in general. This would eventually help in their integration in the local society.
167 votes
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How about a bike ride with your girlfriends wearing heels?
Riding a bike as a social activity lets you add pleasant experiences and views from different perspectives. What happens when femininity and woman strength summon on a bicycle? You get empowered women capable of showing their unique style.
489 votes
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"Ulice za bicikliste" (English: Streets for Cyclists) is a project started 2 years ago to promote the usage of bicycles as a mean of transport in Belgrade. Unfortunately in Serbia the awareness for bikes is low and in order to change that, I founded Belgrade Critical Mass. Since then, once a month cyclists are taking to the streets...
88 votes
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Experience France by Bike (www.experiencefrancebybike.com) advocates recreational cycling in France for all ages, fitness levels and budgets by empowering people with the information needed to plan and take a bicycling vacation. It also strives to promote social change by advocating cyclotourism as a way to experience the culture and history of an area in a way not possible when touring by car.
73 votes
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Changwon Bike Party is a monthly, group ride open to any and all riders in Changwon, South Korea. Every ride has a different costumed theme, start point, and route. The goal of Changwon Bike Party is to create a cross-cultural exchange between foreigners and native Koreans centered around a love of bikes and community, all carried out using Changwon’s public bike share system Nubija.
212 votes
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Schulterblick – The Vienna Cycling School is organizing cycling courses for school classes in the centre of Vienna in order to support and motivate families to use the bicycle for transport in the city. The program is distinguished by its interactive approach, which enables to reduce the apparent complexity of urban traffic to a few behaviour patterns. These are easy to learn and great fun for children when put into practice.
32 votes
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Volunteers buy with their bicycles food from a grocery for other persons. The cyclists receive some extra money from the clients and sales discount for their own food shopping at the grocery. This service takes place in a village or urban settlement where the cyclists use the nearest food grocery to buy food for the clients. Also offices and other workspaces can contact the cyclists to get food.
47 votes
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Bicycle School is a non-commercial series of tutorials and practical rides to teach people how to ride safely in the city with practically no the bike paths. At the moments 90% of bicyclists in the city ride on the sidewalks. In our School we teach how to ride safely on the roads, making it fairer to pedestrians and more noticeable to drivers and Government.
24 votes
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National Parks in Patagonia and in many other places are packed with precious trails, but for some misterious reason, administration has not yet awakened for the use of it. Finding the myths that take these key people to believe it is not possible or appropriate to ride inside PUBLIC parks is our mission, and it is good to see we are not alone! A lot of dialogue and positive attitude to share.
104 votes
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Political support is the critical missing element for many bike projects. Grr-Grr-Bike is a smartphone game designed to increase political support for bike projects by connecting players with local bike advocacy groups via a link on the game results screen. Clicking the link takes you to a page with information from your local bike group on local events, projects to support and activities.
48 votes
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Everyone get a ride - we use recycled bikes that we collect at people's home to offer as rentals all around town, owned and manned by unemployed young adults, who use the bkes as their own transport as well as rentals.
5 votes
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Photographic bicycle counts, combines the reliability of the automated processes with the practical and low-cost practice of manual bike counts. This new method of bicycle counting was developed to respond to the needs of cyclists groups as well as civic organizations as partners in the process of local bikeway planning.
65 votes
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Bicycle Innovation Lab is a national and international house of cycling culture situated in Copenhagen. We facilitate lectures, events (see link), workshops and exhibitions with the bicycle and bicycle traffic as the focal point. Bicycle Innovation Lab works to highlight the developing potential of bicycle culture across disciplines.
77 votes
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Brought to you from the people behind Saddle Skedaddle Cycling Holidays - The Cycle Hub is a social enterprise that promotes and facilitates cycling, complete with bike hire facilities, cafe, bike shop and repair workshop.
The Cycle Hub will provide cyclists in Newcastle a place to meet and chat over cake and coffee.
12 votes
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We are a group of young cyclists promoting a different lifestyle and offering a space to bike around the city and to create a social conscience about economy and people.Our goal is to encourage the use of bicycles in business and social activities in Mexico City.
We established as a cooperative because it fosters economic solidarity, generates dignified jobs and social welfare.
285 votes
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Escuela BiciMujer (Women’s Cycling School) gets women on wheels and onto the street! 235 women from different backgrounds and ages who never learned to cycle or who never gained confidence to bike in the streets have become urban cyclists. 50 enthusiastic volunteers power the school making possible the dream of many. We are transforming the landscape of the city by transforming women’s lives.
502 votes
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The Global Ride to Rio is a campaign for the advancement of bicycle traffic. It started in a small company in Munich, Germany, and rolled all over the world. Bicycle-enthusiasts from all walks of life came together to bring the message across: Cycling is good for you and for the environment. Finally, the campaign was presented at the Earth Summit in Rio where it was met with great interest.
162 votes
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Once asked about his opinion in an interview, James May, BBC’s presenter of Top Gear – an immensely popular TV show about cars – once said the following about bicycles:
“I know what they're good for, and what they're not good for. Among the latter is carrying a new refrigerator.”
Well, James May definitely got it wrong, and we would like to show just how much he got it wrong.
42 votes
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Dear Cycling Visionary Team!
Hereby I would like to submit my application with the " Biketrials Vienna Project" to the Velocity Cycling Visionaries Awards.
"Biketrials Vienna" is a friendly biker community, and I am really proud that I am the one who started to organise this community in Vienna.
For further details about us, our events and shows visit our website www.biketrialsvienna.com
10 votes
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Have you ever received a note on your bike? How did you feel? Wasn't it better than receveing a postcard?
Trying to make cyclists feel special we leave 'Thank you for riding in Madrid' notes on the parked bikes.
Easy to copy, adaptable to all places, this inniciative aims to bring a smile to our cyclists' faces.
This original idea was shared through our blog: "Muévete en bici por Madrid".
39 votes
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We are LeaseRad, an independent ecological company which aims to promote the use of bikes in business life. Our new, innovative commuting transportation concept JobRad allows employees to lease bikes via their employer, enabling them to save up to 40% of the original purchasing price. JobRad makes bikes available independent of the size of the company.
40 votes
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Bike Train supports people to cycle - especiallly those nervous on busy roads - by organising \'safety-in-numbers\' rides. Each ride creates a friendly, sociable & assertive presence by enabling participants to cycle side-by-side, taking up a lane of road space. Every ride carries a sound system playing up-beat tunes and is clearly signposted with a large red triangle \'Bike Train!\' sign at the rear
10 votes
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The aim of this 2 minute video is to raise awareness of how fast, practical, and healthy cycling is thereby stressing the importance of cycling, promoting it and striving to institutionalise the culture of cycling amongst the student population in Novi Sad.
385 votes
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A documentary/road movie project founded by friends and bike lovers in 2011. From a crazy idea of riding from Madrid to Budapest on a fixed gear bike to building an international cycling community and a filmmaker team that has only one goal in life: show the world that there are lots of ways to have fun in life and riding a bike is definitely one of them.
253 votes
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I-bike-SPb (or People, Cycles and Saint-Petersburg in Russian) in a non-commercial project - simply a series of photos of people and their bikes. In our city cycling is still perceived as something sub-cultural and sportive. Our purpose is to show that riding a bicycle is not just a sport or leisure activity, but also an important mean of transport.
42 votes
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A Cyclefriend is a mechanic with a mobile workshop. Through partnerships a Cyclefriend will visit a workplace once a week and repair the bikes of those who have booked online through the webportal made for each workplace. No-one will ever again avoid taking the bike because their 8-5 job is conflicting with 8-5 bikeshop opening hours. A membership community is made to promote cycling.
59 votes
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The bikekitchen is a public space located in Goldschlagstraße 8, in 1150 Wien spanning a workshop, a kitchen and a lounge (a place for events). Our legal basis is a club/association but we see ourselves as a non-hierarchical, open collective. The bikekitchen is a non-profit organisation but of course we need to cover our costs (rent, tools, kitchen ...).
82 votes
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You could tell how bike friendly a city is by the number of women on bikes. In a city where bike riding in general is not always a bliss, SkirtBike aims to celebrate the independence and empowerment that cycling can provide to all women and to encourage those who don’t already cycle. SkirtBike is a fun, colorful and friendly women bicycle ride, where the skirt or the dress is the proper outfit.
785 votes
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A youth research & participation project with the main objective of rethinking society from a young perspective. At the core of the project is a 2-month bicycle-couchsurfing tour across Germany to empower local youth groups to make local interview-survey projects and to gather stories. The bike is symbol for environmental and social sustainability and key to people.
6 votes
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Ciclopaseos del Ecuador aims to make bicycles, as well as public spaces in which to ride them, more readily available for Ecuadorian citizens. The overall goal of Ciclopaseos is to generate safe and environmentally friendly spaces for public recreation, to provide education surrounding public health and street coexistence, and to promote social inclusion.
1214 votes
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Open Streets Cape Town (OSCT) is a citizen-driven initiative, it is both an organisation and a philosophy for public life, working to design and promote streets which embed and generate respect for people, regardless of who they are, and how they move. It was founded in 2012 by a group of cycling activists committed to contributing to a more equitable; integrated; safer and vibrant Cape Town.
52 votes
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Bikes who where removed in the public space by the MA48 will be fixed up an repainted. This could happen by jobless teenagers or/ and volunteers. They could be trained to be mechanics , painter or steelworker. The bikes could be painted in a catchy or cool color and sold to a moderat price... called the WIENRAD ...
5 votes
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Through an 18,000 km trip by bicycle across Latin America 'Ride to change' intends to be a platform that connects different groups of students, organizations, private companies and public institutions to create synergies that contribute to The Change. The change in the way we interact with our environment and those around us. Ride to change your life / your city / our world.
709 votes
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\\\"Du hast eine schönes Rad!\\\" it´s a versatile event with multiple actions all around two wheels and a saddle, from superheroes to the kids. \\\"Du hast ein schönes Rad!\\\" is a event concept that shows over interactive elements the relationship to the own bike of the participants and promote all the needs for a save ride. The event was held one time in 2010.
7 votes
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From 1 June 2012 to 1 June 2013 young journalist and filmmaker Bojun Bjorkman-Chiswell undertook to document the stories of the world's One Billion Bicycles. Traveling to 5 continents, 30 countries, 50 cities and conducting over 200 interviews, the importance of the bicycle to humanity is revealed via the stories of whole cities in transition, through to one man for whom "the bicycle is a life".
242 votes
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Tens of millions of bicycles are being stolen each year. The sad fact is that these bicycles are being bought by peer cyclists. we believe that cyclists wouldn't buy stolen bikes providing that there is an easy way to identify them. We hope that offering a free bicycle tag with highest durability against removal would provide such a solution and could ruin the market for stolen properties.
6 votes
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Tired of getting your bike stolen or of being forced to buy an old-used one, because a new bike wakes up the envy of others? Here is the solution. Become part of the VEST-BIKE Project and ride assured that your bike stays with you all the time. And not only that! This project will increase your personal safety while you ride and in case of a crash, thus, rising the bike ridership.
43 votes
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Cyclists' Union is a volunteer based organization which does not rely on funds and donors, but rather on the abilities and willingness of its members. The 2000 strong membership base was formed using inventive social media strategies and attractive public actions. This model could serve as a cheap and sustainable advocacy model for civil society organizations around the globe.
422 votes
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Shkodra, Northern Albania (114.000 inhabitants), is renowned for its cycling tradition in Albania and in Southeast Europe. Its modal split is special: 29%¨cycling share, 44% walking and 3% public transport. There’s gender equity in cycling and cycle use is wide spread and popular over all ages. The cycling culture is well alive still and Shkodra is said to be a live laboratory for ‘shared space’ with mutual respect between road users. Can compact Shkodra then preserve this sustainable urban travel profile that is by western standards very ‘active, clean and energy efficient’?
445 votes
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Tribul (The Tribe) is a simple social project/social business based on bicycle couriers in the busy city of Bucharest. The Tribe has one big goal: to promote cycling while showing all it's benefits.
948 votes
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Bikenapped is an online platform that allows bike theft victims to tag thefts on a map with details of the incident. Also using incident reports collected from public police logs, the map generates an overview of the scope of the bike theft problem and how it affects our cities. Users are also asked to post a Bikenapped flyer at the actual place of the theft to help raise awareness for the issue.
25 votes
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Bike.Bdg is a community based bike sharing. Now is being run by a local community, supported by 10 others community in Bandung. We want to create a cycling culture in a city that consists of 2 Million vehicle users.
108 votes
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According to scientific studies head injuries in traffic can be reduced with bicycle helmets by 69%. For this reason Bundesverband Kinderneurologie-Hilfe e.V. created a prevention project to promote the use of helmets: Stadthelm is a secure, stylish helmet that creates a connection to the carrier by identification with his hometown. A donation for each helmet sold underlines the social benefit.
83 votes
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About 300 bicycles are endangered. To avoid it, we want to carry out the project SAVE THE BIKES, which allows giving them a new chance, a new use. The project also aims to promote a new form of sustainable and healthy mobility in our environment, thanks to the work that we will do from LUB (Laboratorio Urbano de la Bicicleta).
253 votes
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Beocyclization (Ser. Beociklizacija) is a play of words merging the name of the city of Belgrade and a verb bicyclization. What I had on mind is trying to make this city as beautiful and interesting place for bicycling, as it is in it's other aspects, for example, architecture or nightlife.
13 votes
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When cycling becomes popular, bicycles will be stolen. The 3 P’s of preventing bike theft: prevention, places, police. Prevention: knowledge and use of good locks by bicycle owners. Places: enough legal points to attach the bicycle too and big, free, guarded parking facilities. Police: without permanent attention by the police, stealing of bikes will proof to be a profitable criminal activity...
6 votes
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BikeSurfBerlin is a free bicycle lending project in Berlin. It allows everyone the opportunity to cycle in a relatively safe city environment without the need to leave a deposit or pay to use the bikes. It relies on the generosity of people who give us bikes and bike parts, online donations and time to maintain and improve the service we provide. We don’t just advocate cycling; we facilitate it.
215 votes
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Cyclescape is a comprehensive online campaigning toolkit which will be "a hugely important step forward for all cycle campaigning groups". People subscribe to geographical locations (e.g. "Where I cycle") to infrastructure problems in those areas. Planning applications appear automatically, collision data is integrated, a library suggests resources relevant to a discussion, deadline listings, etc.
71 votes
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Mission
Richmond Spokes empowers, engages, and employs youth through cycling and green industries that benefit our local community. By creating a new youth cycling industry which embodies youth skills development and green entrepreneurship, Richmond Spokes guides each participant to improve their life and the health of our local and global environment.
12 votes
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Bike Fest is a colourful and dynamic celebration of bike-riding, designed by Green Revolution to bring together bikers of all kinds: women, men, children, extreme sport fans, advocates of urban cycling, beginners and advanced users. It blends the competitive nature of a sports event, a pentathlon, with the engaging and entertaining structure of a festival focused on bike culture and advocacy.
393 votes
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Straßenraum für die Radfahrer erobern.
Auf Radverkehr aufmerksam machen.
Verkehrssicherheit durch Erweiterung des Bewusstseins für den anderen Verkehrsteilnehmer
Aufbau einer Radfahrer Community
Interesse der medien für den Radverkehr wecken
Innovatives zeigen und fördern, fordern
5 votes
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Creating Together the City We Want to Live in: Making urban cycling promotion an integral issue of urban development policies in cities with low cycling and civic engagement tradition
We do crowdsource ideas, we do connect and activate creative people, we cooperate with active people from other cities and countries and WE REALLY WANT THE CHANGES we work so hard for. Let's join the movement!
538 votes
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BikeEverywhere is an initiative to encourage more people to cycle (well, everywhere) by helping cyclists navigate the busiest routes in and out of the CBD through a series of helpful videos.
BikeEverywhere has produced a video series that is shot from a cyclist’s point of view and shows a new cyclist how to best handle the challenges of cycling on the road in Wellington, New Zealand.
221 votes
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Promote the use of bicycles in the Madrid city through a slow bike ride dressing old vintage clothes inspirited on the early 19th century.
8 votes
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Regular cyclists describes their daily itinerary on a web site to allow beginners to contact them to get advises, or to be picked up and guided, up to constitute a group of cyclists, like a (cyclist) bus.
There are 150 buses described in France. It is possible to contact the cyclist guide by his e-mail address, and then exchange mobile phone numbers.
5 votes
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Giving bagdes with the logo of our blog (with a beautiful bike on it) is not only a way of promotion of our blog "Muevete en bici por Madrid", but also usefull to gain bike supporters.
We give these to taxi and bus drivers (if they are "friends with us", we will cycle more safe), to cyclists (in gratitude for cycling), and celebrities (promotion).
More than 500 badges given already.
53 votes
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One of the main reasons, not to use a bike, is the fact that people do not know the existing cycling routes. Once citicens are informed about the existing possibilities, they can see how easy it can be to move to a certain point by bike. The „Radagenda 22“ publishes the most important cycling routes in the 22nd district - Donaustadt, to inform about the well extended net of cycling routes.
169 votes
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The project aim is to increase youth capacity to play a productive role in the community by means of a comunitary bicycle workshop. The project will take the attention of the citizens and will make a strong statement on how this bicycle project is a model to mitigate the community-level impact of crime and violence.
132 votes
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ConduzcoYo its a drivers´enterprise for nights in Madrid city. we offer a drivers' service for those clients who use his car and are not in conditions to drive. We send a driver that drive the car of the client until the point selected
2 votes
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Cities want to dramatically promote commuting by bicycle but the path is not clear. A lower cost supplement or alternative to bike share programs would be for municipalities to simply give out free commuter bicycles of one simple design and colour. Recipients would have specified responsibilities, with a locator in each bicycle. Corporate advertisement could easily pay for the entire venture.
352 votes
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Bike Town is a branding initiative of Devon, Alberta, Canada to create a more liveable environment for its citizens as well as drive tourism. Through a passionate community and supportive town council, Bike Town provides residents and tourists bountiful cycling opportunities, ranging from recreational to competitive and beginner to professional. Life is better in Bike Town so enjoy the ride!
311 votes
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A small group of keen cyclists had a vision about cycling mobility in Rio. It was before Rio became the host city for Fifa World Cup and Olympic Games. Now more than ever the need for changes in mobility is a big issue to the city. With a positive and collaborative advocacy, Transporte Ativo (Active Transportation) has found its way and is going beyond expectations, helping transform the city!
60 votes
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My idea is to create a Multilanguage European network of bike bloggers and journalists which will have the goal to spread cycling culture all over Europe and to strengthen advocacy activities. A kind of “alpha version” of this network has already been successfully tested in Italy under the name of #Salvaiciclisti.
489 votes
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BICIRED is a network conformed by non-profit organizations, civil groups and collectives working on behalf of cycling mobility in Mexico. We are pushing forward the bicycle agenda in our country through organized civil work, projects and campaigns. We’ve been working on national activities that make an impact on people, institutions, federal and local governments.
231 votes
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VELOGISTICS.net wants to make a constructive contribution to the development of sustainable lifestyles, share-economy and post-fossil mobility. Less noise, less pollution - more space, more fun: BURN FAT, NOT OIL !
The free sharing-platform http://velogistics.net brings together owners and users of cargobikes. Potentially worldwide ;)
79 votes
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This project aims to help and to enable people to create job themselves using the excellent tool as bicycles. The beneficiaries will be grouped in cooperatives and every member receive a bicycle to use for transport of goods or passengers and he earn money by that work. He have to pay the total price plus a small interest within one year. After to pay back another group receive the bicycles and so on; it means that the project ‘ll continue for a long time.
38 votes
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Recicleta is an NGO conformed by a group of friends that recycles unused bicycles donated by people in Santiago, and give those bikes to people that can't afford one.
435 votes
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Through the national citizen-led network 'La Ciudad Verde', we promote cycling as a vital component of urban sustainability. We depend on academic evidence but understand it must be sexy to all. Thus, we lead creative initiatives that allow for citizens to “get their hands dirty”. With Bicycles for Life, we have instituted September 22 as the yearly DIY bicycle lane day in Colombia.
480 votes
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Talk of the town AB will the coming week launch a new way for visitors to experience Stockholm. The the audio guide app "Hop-on Hop-off your Stockholm City Bike Audio Guide" powered by GuidiGO.
In the app, we have combined our guide with tips to users on where it is smartest to walk or use the bike for transport between the audio guide’s sights and where they can pick-up and leave their bikes.
2 votes
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Holidays by Cycle (www.holidaysbycycle.com) is the first internet based business that aims to bring together all cycle tourism related businesses in Europe. The primary aim is to provide a comprehensive listing of cycle friendly accommodation throughout Europe and link this to cycle hire and routes. The concept allows people to take cycling holidays throughout Europe and utilise dedicated routes, suitable accommodation and cycle hire resources with the minimum of planning.
47 votes
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The Municipality of Aglantzia since 26/10/2011 applied a bike sharing system. The idea started from our participation in the Tat-project - Students Today, Citizens Tomorrow, an Intelligent Energy Europe Program regarding sustainable mobility. After hard work and the information campaigns of the TaT project the other Municipalities of the greater Nicosia liked the idea of having a similar bike sharing system.
29 votes
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We are happy to announce that 60 Cycling Visionaries in total will be chosen. As announced, 30 prizes are given as “Voting Prizes”, and a further 30 “Vienna Jury Prizes” were added because of the massive response to the Cycling Visionaries Awards program.
