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@Oliver Schick
A combination of parody and seriousness is very hard to get right.
I think one of the main obstacles is also that there are so many different lyrics for The Internationale, making parody all the more difficult owing to the relative absence of well-known lines/verses.
Also, and I immediately admit to considerable ignorance concerning the Clarion movement, is a lyric specifically addressing 'cycling issues', or perhaps (one could say charitably) wider transport injustice, appropriate as a variation of The Internationale when presumably the Clarion would aim to join in supporting the wider socialist movement, and simply adopt The Internationale as is?
Finally, as ever, do try to check the singability of a lyric after constructing it on paper. In this particular case, I'm not altogether convinced that it can be considered singable. :)