A Solar Bike Ride from France to Japan

Five months ago cyclist Florian Bailly left France on his solar-powered bike to travel 8,077 miles across Europe to Tokyo.

10 Best Bamboo Bikes For Style and Performance

Love them!

Bamboo not only makes for beautiful bikes, it is one of the greener building materials we’ve got: It has a low CO2 footprint compared to aluminum and steel, is renewable, and even biodegradable (though hard to imagine how it would biodegrade with all those layers of lamination). Yes, bamboo isn’t perfect — often it comes with a big carbon footprint for transport — but these bike designers are taking bamboo to the heights of beauty and usefulness.

via 10 Best Bamboo Bikes For Style and Performance (Slideshow) : TreeHugger.

A Shweeb for Singapore?

Perhaps Singapore would consider adopting it as well!

Is the Shweeb Ready for Prime Time?

The Shweeb is derived from the German “Schweben”, meaning to float or suspend. A logical name for a device invented by a New Zealander living in Tokyo. Commenters had issues when we wrote about it last year, But somebody likes it; It just won a million bucks in the Google 10100 competition.

Google writes:  Shweeb is a concept for short to medium distance, urban personal transport, using human-powered vehicles on a monorail. We are providing $1 million to fund research and development to test Shweebs technology for an urban setting.

Read more : Is the Shweeb Ready for Prime Time? : TreeHugger.

16km network of cycle paths by 2014

By the end of next year, cyclists could ride around the Marina Bay area, say, from One Raffles Quay, along Marina Bay Sands, to Marina Centre.

This route is part of an extensive network of cycling paths the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will roll out in the area, which will see 16 kilometres of dedicated tracks by 2014.

via TODAYonline