Ciclosfera is the name of the most important Spanish urban bike magazine. Its name comes from the words ciclo (cycle) and esfera (sphere), remembering the shape of the bike wheels, its movement and symbolically the non-stop evolution of it. It is the most popular one in Spain with around 100 pages. You can find it at bike stores and workshops in more than twenty-seven cities. Adds and subscribers fund it to allow it being totally free. What is it so important? Among the team of good reporters who write exciting articles, there is a wide range of themes which are treated. Security, bike-friendly cities, interviews, thrift stores, the last fashion, good photos, news, architecture, personages, followers interactions, round tables, cartoons, you name it. The last products from bike firms and parts producers are shown as well as bike culture in the broadest sense of its meaning. This quarterly magazine goes down a treat of urban bikers and gives ideas about how to improve a bike, a ride or the next travel. Furthermore, the most exciting bike events come under in a specific section every three months. It is extremely complicated to think about a subject which is not cover by Ciclosfera.

You can check it on www.ciclosfera.com (in Spanish). It is also presented in the social networks.

Bike lines represent a good and safety infrastructure for cyclists when we want to ride the city and have been an essential part for the boom of environmentally friendly ways of transport. One can be used to riding on them in well-known places. But the problem comes when we want or need to do it in unknown places. There are some tips to face it like asking a friend or relative who lives there or searching the web for specific information. This last point can be tedious specially when you do not have a clear target to focus on and one can abort the search after a fruitless waste of time.

It would be great if all the bike lines in the world would be collected in the sense of having just one website with the whole information. Well, it already exists. Open Cycle Map offers this and much more under a free schema. The accurate world map allows looking for bike lines in whatever country by using the zoom + / – on the left-hand side. Moreover, this impressive web points out bike parking, bike shops, bike rental shops, toilets, cafes, drinking water, hospitals, post boxes, you name it (https://www.opencyclemap.org/docs). If you are planning a bike trip, this is your reference web.