It's every cyclist's dream: no red lights, no trucks, just a clear, smooth lane to zoom down with the wind in your face. Welcome to Germany's first bicycle Autobahn. Fans hail the smooth new velo routes as the answer to urban traffic jams and air pollution, and a way to safely get nine-to-fivers outdoors. As a glimpse of a greener urban transport future, Germany has just opened the first five-kilometre (three-mile) stretch of a bicycle highway that is set to span over 100 kilometres.

The trouble with mountain biking in Nepal is that you’re surrounded by distractions. Fields of bright orange marigolds and golden mustard flowers look like a sunset splashed across the earth. Chubby-cheeked babies bathing in buckets of water cause my second near tumble. Then there is the sight of the campsites sheltering people still without homes... By Jen Murphy.

In a pilot program underway in Aarhus, Denmark, cyclists are given RFID tags that trigger traffic lights in their favor. By Heather Hansman.

A major Canadian study has found no link between cycle helmet legislation and head injuries, and has recommended governments focus on providing bike infrastructure to protect cyclists instead. Between 2006-2011 the study recorded hospitalisation data from different Canadian jurisdictions, some with mandatory helmet laws, some without. Of an average 3690 hospital administrations per year in riders aged 12 and over there were 622 hospitalisations...

The District government is going through the rather municipally boring process of determining where to build a bike lane on the east side of downtown. And one church has given a charged response to some proposals, saying that a bike lane near its property would infringe upon “its constitutionally protected rights of religious freedom and equal protection of the laws.”

For those brief moments that you happen to be in a bike lane, biking in the city is wonderful. But it always seems that bike lanes end before they even begin, just like a summer romance or a slice of pizza.

Marking 25 years since Germany’s 1990 reunification, Joe Baur cycles the Berlin Wall Trail, packing in nearly half a century of history over a single day.

In theory, the heart of Silicon Valley—towns like Mountain View and Santa Clara—should be the ultimate place to bike. It's usually 72 degrees and sunny; it's mostly flat. But it's also a classic example of suburbia designed for cars, bisected by 10-lane freeways and extra-wide streets filled with speeding cars. Google is hoping to help turn its home turf into something more like the bicycle paradise of Copenhagen...

Every fall, the world’s best mountain bikers assemble at Red Bull Rampage to hurl themselves down cliffs in search of fame and fortune—if they make it down in one piece.

On Friday 1 May at 18:00hrs a cyclist was pushed off her bike on Sydney Street. She politely asked a pedestrian crossing the road to not knock her off and was chased by a hostle man later and pushed off the bike into the ground.

Over the decades, Los Angeles has bulldozed homes, paved through tranquil canyons, toppled countless trees and even flattened some hillsides, all in the name of keeping automobile traffic flowing as fast as possible. On Tuesday, city leaders decided to slow things down.

By “risking their lives for the joy of riding a bike” women in Afghanistan “are sparking a revolution” and inspiring others to do the same.The Short Film Showcase spotlights exceptional short videos created by filmmakers from around the web and selected by National Geographic editors. The filmmakers created the content presented, and the opinions expressed are their own, not those of the National Geographic Society.

Its single carbon fibre wheel surrounds a clever eletromagnetic resistance mechanism that replicates the feel of a racing bicycle.

The thoroughfares of Pyongyang feature the greatest amenities for the convenience and efficiency of the socialist worker.

Vittorio Brumotti is a name you've probably never heard before, but you won't soon forget it... assuming you can pronounce it. While freestyle biking isn't exactly a mainstream sport, it's somethin...

The city says that tests have shown "the passage of cyclists through red lights isn't accident-prone and avoids certain conflicts between cyclists and vehicles."

Copenhagen is one of the world's best cities for biking, with more than 200 miles of bike lanes and two of just a handful of bike superhighways built worldwide. Meanwhile, of the top 20 most bike-friendly cities in the world, only one is in the US — while 17 are in Europe. But what most people don't realize is that way back in 1900, Los Angeles began construction on the world's first bike highway. During this bike-crazed era, cities across the US built the earliest precursors to today's...

Having already cycled to the South Pole, Maria Leijerstam believes that travellers can better appreciate the beauty of a place if they use their own sweat to get there.

“You grow up in a cult,” says Juliana Buhring, “and everybody thinks there’s something wrong with you.”