Links
Cycling (and other) Websites
- Local Cycling Links
- Other Local Links
- Cycling Groups and Campaigns
- National Links
- International Links
- Newsgroups
Local Cycling Links
- Travel Bristol on-line journey planner for public transport, walking and cycling
- BristolMTB – for mountain bikers in the south west of the UK.
- Bristol South Cycling Club
- Cycle West is a charity that helps people take up cycling.
- Cyclebag East – East Bristol-based cycling club.
- CTC Bristol
- Easyriders – enjoy the Cotswolds with the Easyriders Cycling Group.
- Sustrans – Bristol-based cycle route-building charity.
- North Somerset Cycle Campaign
Other Local Links
- The Ashley Vale Action Group is a non-profit making company set up with the aim of exercising community control of "brown field" development in their area. They are developing self-build houses on the site of the old scaffolding yard near St. Werburgh's City Farm.
- The Bishopston Trading Company is a worker's co-operative selling clothes for women and children.
- bristle—
an alternative publication for Bristol
. The web site is out of date, so look out for the printed version. - Bristol Activists – an e-mail discussion group. "Discuss politics! Post news of interesting meetings and events! Educate and activate!"
- Bristol Civic Society campaign on a wide range of issues affecting Bristol particularly Transport and Planning.
- Bristol Green Party
- Bristol Indymedia is an online open publishing news service for the people of Bristol which can be accessed and contributed to by all. "We aim to avoid party politics and partisan political affinity, and to bring to light stories of genuine local concern to the people of Bristol."
- The Bristolian – "the paper wot the Evening Post pinches its stories off"
- Digital Bristol
- Friends of Severn Beach Railway
- Living Easton – a historical and environmental group for the Easton area. Their "Free the Frome" campaign has the aim of opening up cycle and pedestrian routes along the side of Bristol's neglected second river.
- Resistance! Resistance! Resistance! have a comprehensive page of campaigning links.
- Swap It. Swap, donate or give away your unwanted items—FREE!
Cycling Groups and Campaigns
- Cambridge Cycling Campaign – good section on what to do if you have an accident as well as lots of other good stuff.
- Chesterfield Cycle Campaign
- COGS—Cycling Opportunities Group Salisbury
- Cycle Campaign Network – the federation of cycling campaign groups in the UK, including the BCC.
- CTC – Britain's oldest cycling organisation.
- Dorset Cyclists Network
- The Harwell Bicycle Users Group's web site has ideas on publishing local route maps.
- Leeds Cycling Action Group
- The London Cycling Campaign has loads more cycling links.
- Lothian Cycle Campaign
- Reading Cycle Campaign
- Pedalpushers – the Sheffield Cycling Campaign
- Spokes—East Kent Cycle Campaign
- York Cycling Campaign
- Tynebikes, with a comprehensive links page.
National Links
- A to B – a cycling magazine with an emphasis on folding bikes.
- Bike Reader – a curious and wonderful "Rider's Digest" of assorted words and pictures.
- Cyclists.org.uk is a site intended for non-competitive cyclists and campaigners, and contains regular news, events listings, chat areas, and information.
- Let Britain Breathe – Don't Choke Britain is campaigning to encourage people to make the links between theirtravel habits, the environment, and their quality of life.
- Environmental Transport Association – campaigning for a sound and sustainable transport system.
- Pedestrians' Association
- RoadPeace is the United Kingdom's national charity for road crash victims, working for real road safety, and supporting those bereaved or injured by a road crash.
- Slower Speeds Initiative – the national campaign to reduce traffic speeds. Lots of information about lower traffic speed campaigning. Contains many interesting links and the address for their email discussion group.
- UK Public Transport Information
- urbancyclist-uk is an e-mail discussion group for all who are interested in the challenges, dilemmas and issues confronted by cyclists using the road system in the UK, or by those who would like to use a bike but are currently put off by the hostile traffic conditions.
- Velo-city 2003. Velo-city is the world's premier international cycling planning conference. The 2003 event will be held in Paris in September.
- Velovision –newly-launched cycling magazine.
- Young TransNet uses IT and the Internet to assist children and young people in transport research and action.
International Links
- Car Busters magazine and resource centre.
- CarFree.com – a vision of car-free cities.
- carfreeday.net. The fresh way of thinking about, how we use our streets and how we live; freeing up road space for community events; new forms of environmentally friendly travel.
- World Transport Policy and Practice. "The first practically-oriented journal dealing consistently and with full independence with the major issues in a field of international concern."
Newsgroups
A selection of Usenet newsgroups related to cycling.
- uk.rec.cycling
- alt.collecting.bicycles
- alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent
- alt.mountain-bike
- rec.bicycles.marketplace
- rec.bicycles.misc
- rec.bicycles.racing
- rec.bicycles.rides
- rec.bicycles.soc
- rec.bicycles.tech
Disclaimer: Because of the non-hierarchical consensus-driven quasi-anarchic nature of the BCC, the views expressed on these pages (including this one) may or may not reflect those of any or all of its members.
