The Nazis were kicked out of Milan on 25th April 1945. The day before, Gina Galeotti Bianchi (fighting name: Lia), five months pregnant, was mowed down while defending a barricade. She had a bicycle at her side. On Sunday a colourful procession of cyclists will ride through Milan, and remember the role that women and bicycles played during the Resistance. The ride will stop at various sites where Lia lived and worked, and at each stop readings and theatrical performances will take place (itinerary). One [...]

If you are planning to vote in May, watch the video above and read this post by As Easy As Riding A Bike. And then ask yourself: “Do I want to be swindled and cheated by Johnson for four more years?” In essence, the redesign of the Blackfriars Bridge junction was sold as required ” to accommodate the [expectation of] hugely increased pedestrian flows.” If you don’t know this junction, note that there used to be a pedestrian crossing where you see all the people [...]

Bike Reader has a series of bike related photographic galleries.