The Bicycle Film Festival party is coming to London's Barbican Centre this week. The BFF is an itinerant carnival of films, music, seminars and events bringing together diverse aspects of cycling life and culture from around the globe. The festival roadshow, now in its eighth year, has spread to 15 cities, from New York to Tokyo and Sydney to Zurich.

BFF was founded by Californian actor Brendt Barbur, with compensation money after being knocked off his bike into the path of a bus by a van door. "The bus driver came over and stared at me and didn't say a word. The man in the van didn't say a word. I felt a lack of respect and wanted to do something to advocate bike use, but I didn't know how to do it," he says. Instead of pocketing the compensation and taking to the subway, he decided to put his pay-off to work. "I'm into art, I'm into film, so that's what I did." There's a great interview with the man here.

One of the highlights looks like Saturday's Urban Bike Shorts evening kicking off "King of Stich" from Director Dan Leeb about daredevil bike messenger Felipe Robayo aka "The King of New York". See the photo above of him hitching a ride on a Lotus across the Williamsburg Bridge. For venue details and bookings see The Barbican site.

Thought it was time to draw attention to this inspiring bike recycling movie. Matthew McGuinness is a cofounder of The 62, a Brooklyn-based art collective who started Recycle-a-Bicycle, a youth training initiative in NYC. He's in this slightly contrived but ever so hip bit of cinematography. Click the image above for the movie. If you fancy recycling your own bike get the gear here and check out this book :

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The Puma I-Cycle Film Series is a collection of short films exploring bike culture and the people who influence it. They focus on some of today’s biggest advocates for two-wheeled life, including; George Bliss, the man behind New York’s Pedi-cabs; Brendt Barbur, founder of The Bicycle Film Festival, Matthew Modine, actor and founder of Bicycle-For-A-Day, an ongoing initiative to encourage and inspire individuals to leave their cars in the garage and reduce their carbon footprints on the world. How can you fault a multinational for jumping on a bandwagon when they do it with such style? See the rest of the movies here.

This should get a few of you ripping up an old dumpster bike and giving birth to a unique minimalist single speed. Here's a few bike recycling / fixie conversion essentials you might need and below are fixie conversion essentials and tools from the video. Also check out "Bicycle! Manifesto" a book by Sam Tracy not short on inspiring bike ranting.

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Agyness Deyn, much lauded cycle chic guru and supermodel from Manchester has been in the papers again. Since her move from Primrose Hill, London to NYC to be with fiance Albert Hammond Jnr, guitarist for The Strokes, she's been snapped many times out and about on her 'Amsterdam Electra' Dutch bike. Last week she was caught shopping for lingerie in SoHo. Despite her East London grunge chic she truly is a beautiful girl, no question, and one with an adorably quirky sense of style. How can you not love a girl who rides a bicycle with rainbow tassles on the handlebars? Here's a roundup of recent Agy bike chic (courtesy of Shelly at Riding Pretty) and how to get it . . .

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Leaders of South Williamsburg's Hasidic Jewish community said yesterday that bike lanes that bring scantily clad cyclists - especially sexy women - peddling through their neighborhood are definitely not kosher.

"I have to admit, it's a major issue, women passing through here in that dress code," Simon Weisser, a member of Community Board 1 in Williamsburg-Greenpoint, told The New York Post. Hasids are forbidden from looking at members of the opposite sex who aren't fully dressed, said local activist Isaac Abraham.

The existing one-way lanes are popular with North Williamsburg hipsters - many of whom ride in shorts or skirts. New lanes that were planned through the area are temporarily on hold. For more on the culture clash over sexy cyclists read in full at the New York Post.

The subtitle reads, "If we love to sit on a bike, why are we sitting in traffic?”

The UK Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) this week unveiled its plans for the VeloPark, the venue for Cycling action in 2012. Watch this computer-generated fly through video showing how the VeloPark will look.

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Four London doctors have cycled from John O'Groats to Lands End - 896 miles (the furthest straight line distance in mainland Britain) on a quad tandem bike to raise money for the British Lung Foundation. The 12 day challenge meant cycling 90 miles a day, apparently fuelled by 58 Full English fried breakfasts. The BLF is a a charity that supports individuals with debilitating lung disease and funds vital lung related research, medical and nursing care. Meet the guys, read their journey blog and of course please donate if you can ;-D

Californian band Ginger Ninjas have been on the tour, lugging their gear and powering their sound system by bicycle. "From the Sierra Nevada through the suburban wastelands and urban decay of southern California, over the world’s busiest border crossing, across the wilderness and austere beauty of Baja, into the heart of megapolitan Mexico City, and down to the land of mystic pyramids, the team played shows, recorded music with local musicians, and advocated for a leapfrog-style transition to sustainable transportation.

The team came with the message that bikes are an essential and beautiful part of a sustainable transportation system and that Mexico still has the opportunity to skip US-style development and its suburbanized cult of the car." For more info on their music and manifesto click here.