This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Earlier this month, both Harvard economist Edward Glaeser and ...

MOUNT VERNON – Jim Brown is planning quite the bicycle ride this spring – from Mojave, Calif., to Washington, D.C. That’s not an easy feat for a 67-year-old man. But it’s not the length of the route ...

When Denver’s Gates Corp. in 2008 debuted a belt-drive system to replace century-old chains on bikes, the company promised a “game changer” for the cycling industry. But the chainless revolution – ...

Two Wheels Good. By Jody Rosen. Crown; 416 pages; $28.99. To be published in Britain by Bodley Head in August; £25 In 1896 one of Joseph Pulitzer’s most influential newspapers, the World, reported a ...

Montreal's BIXI bike-sharing service was inducted into TIME magazine's Best Inventions Hall of Fame on Thursday.

Right up there with the iPhone and NASA’s Curiosity rover, TIME Magazine has declared the clunky, grey Bixi bikes zipping ...