I'm trying to get a whole new blog up and running with more varied content, but it has not happened yet. Anyway it will focus on topics other than the ILGP... It will focus on my other interest too... Including veganism, cycling, social justice, radical environmentalism, and various other stuff... anyway here is some good news out of Australia:
http://tinyurl.com/y6khnhBicycle sales outpace cars as firms start treadly fleet
January 5, 2007
Bicycle sales outpaced vehicle sales in 2006, as more Australians turned to pedal-power to cut petrol bills.
The Cycling Promotion Fund (CPF), Australia's peak bicycle promotion group, said 1,273,781 new bikes were sold last year, well ahead of the 962,521 new cars and trucks retailed.
CPF spokesman Ian Christie said Australians were using bikes not just for recreation but increasingly as their preferred form of day-to-day transport.
Mr Christie said sales rose 9 per cent last year as more people turned to bikes to cut petrol costs and also to boost their fitness.
"There is an emerging trend towards people using bikes as their official company-supplied vehicle in place of the traditional company car," he said.
"Some of Australia's biggest corporations now have bicycle fleets and when you add in government organisations, we now know of at least 50 organisations which operate fleets of bikes.
"Although the company bicycle is a long way from taking over from the company car, it's an important trend when you consider that nearly half of all cars sold are to company fleets."
Mr Christie said sales of bikes last year rose to record levels in all segments of the market from children's bikes to high-end competition models.
