Wall Street Journal: “It’s just not part of Dutch culture to use helmets,” says Wim Bot, spokesman for the Dutch Cyclists Union. Advocating them for everyday use, he adds, “leads to very emotional debates.” Bring it on, vocal helmet boosters say. A number of doctors, safety advocates and bike-gear producers are trying to get through Dutch skulls that headgear would protect them. Children are the first battleground. The countries with the highest use of bicycles have the lowest use of helmets. When will Anglo-Saxons and [...]

The Sunday Times features three women who cycle to work. Scroll through the pictures and you will see three actractive women. Two of them are hardly recognisable in their cyclying outfit, full of glaring orange and fluoro-yellow. The third chooses differently: I have a core uniform to cycle in — an American Apparel unitard, or leggings and a vest, which I can throw things over the top of, maybe a Phillip Lim shirt with a Lara Bohinc belt. Often, I’ll wear a tunic on top, [...]

Colourful model on vintage green roadster, originally shot by Gemma Booth for Amelia magazine. The FT reports that even though more people are commuting by bicycle, bike sales have not increased commensurably: Lincoln Romain, at Brixton Cycles in south London, said of the cycling boom: “It’s down to people fixing bikes that they have. For us, new bikes have not been going out [in sales] that much really.” For much of last Saturday at Brixton Cycles on Stockwell Road, south London, there was barely room [...]