From the Sydney Bicycle Film Festival: The Big Bike Love and International Bicycle Film Festivals roll into Sydney this November bringing enough bike fun to satiate the most hard core cyclist.

The festivals are a month-long celebration of Sydney’s diverse cycling communities and include film, art, fashion and parties. Sydney is infamous for its lack of cycling infrastructure, driver attitudes and a culture that promotes the car as the ultimate coming of age accessory.

The Brunetti Women's Coffee Club Ride on Saturday 18 October 2008 was a great success. It was terrific to see the many happy faces of particpants returning from the ride.

Thank you all participants, ride angels, the Victorian Police Bicycle Patrol, the team at Brunetti's, Amy Gillett Foundation, the Herald Sun Tour and the Cycling Promotion Fund.

To assist us in reviewing the event and plan any future events, we have put together a survey:

• Click here to access the survey

The Cycling Promotion Fund commissioned Frontier Economics to prepare our submission to the review of the Australian taxation system.

The CPF supports the review of the tax and transfer system and strongly supports reform to better align the tax system with social and environmental policy objectives, including new and innovative approaches that proactively encourage cycling and other forms of active and low emissions transportation. 

The Cycling Promotion Fund is calling for nominations to the Bicycling Achievement Awards. Making Australia more bicycle friendly requires action, commitment, innovation, vision and persistence. Without the work of dedicated individuals and organisations, many of the facilities and initiatives we take for granted today would not be there.

Making everyday Ride to Work Day is the key message of the Cycling Promotion Fund's $800 million submission to Infrastructure Australia released today.

Launched at National Ride to Work Day, the Cycling Promotion Fund has called for a bicycle infrastructure package of national significance.

"Climate change, spiralling fuel costs, crippling congestion and the obesity epidemic are all important reasons for the Commonwealth to start investing in cycling" said Elliot Fishman spokesperson for the Cycling Promotion Fund.

The Cycling Promotion Fund presented a paper at the Australian Transport Research Forum in Queensland on the untapped potential of the bicycle to help solve some of the nation's most pressing challenges.

The report, Barriers, facilitators and interventions to get more Australians physically active through cycling found that cycling is booming in Australian cities and already provides signficiant benefits in terms of cuts to greenhouse gas emission, congestion, petrol costs and lifestyle diseases such as diabetes.

Enjoy a non-denominational blessing of cyclists and their bicycles organised by the City of Yarra, including live music in celebration of the peaceful sharing of roads. 

This is the first blessing of its kind to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, come and join in the fun. When: Sunday 5 October, North Fitzroy's Edinburgh Gardens from 1.00pm to 2.00pm.