Mobjectovist reports:

Bike sales outpaced car sales for the first time ever in Australia. It happened in the USA as well last year, as not since the oil crisis of 1973 have they sold in such big numbers. We just might catch up to the rest of the world at some point, unless China decides to go the reverse route.

http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/

the direct link to that article should work, but Blogger claims some kind of error:

http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2006/04/earth-daze.html

China has long since decided to go the reverse route. For a ton of articles, type this into Google, Yahoo, or whatever:

ban bikes bund