Eco Bici Eco Bici is a project run by San Salvador’s Amigos de la Tierra. It is a workshop that repairs bikes and builds new ones from discarded frames. Young people spend six months learning maintance and building skills; the workshop has close links with local businesses and it is now concentrating on building freight trikes. Link provided by workbike.org

Zoe Williams on the Lord’s debate on ‘miscreant cyclists’ – Guardian “This is the truth about the cyclist – before they have even decided whether or not to shoot a red light or run over your wife, they are more civic-minded than anyone else travelling in any other manner, bar by foot. If they do run into someone, they at least (like the bee) do their victim the favour of hurting themselves in the process, which is why, if you had any sense, you’d save [...]