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Found on: Rider Cap Throws Bicycle Tour Promoters
Bicycle tour promoters say they will be hamstrung by a new Colorado State Patrol directive that limits organized bicycle events to 2,500 riders.
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Found on: Short Story :: Hot Like Johnny
[[image:johnny1_copy.jpg::inline:0]] Red was a D.C. bicycle courier, and he missed the honking. He missed it, but he did not mourn it. He swept through black and blue cars, a lazy blur that let his hips loll their way through heavy traffic.
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Found on: Transport for London Helps Businesses to Join London’s Transport Revolution
With cycle journeys doubling, and more commuters looking for an alternative to the car, Transport for London (TfL) is launching a range of initiatives to help businesses save money, free up their car parking spaces and help their employees to find better ways of getting to work.
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Found on: Bike Kill 2004
Check out this video short documenting some of the bike madness at the Bike Kill 2004 bike bash in Brooklyn, NY.
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Found on: Recycling Bikes, Building Good Will
“We just put a sign out ‘FREE BIKES,’” said Erin Briggs as she stood in a garage workshop strung with Yule lights and filled with bicycles from floor to ceiling.
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Found on: ‘Tis the Season for Giving
Fuji and SE Bikes, the two brands that comprise Advanced Sports, Inc., have committed to bike donations from Southeast Asia to the Gulf Coast to 48 of the 50 United States and Canada.
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Found on: Battery-Powered Bicycles Offered to Tourists at Cambodia’s Angkor Temples
Tourists exploring Cambodia’s sprawling Angkor temple complex can now do so on battery-powered bicycles that have been introduced in a bid to cut down on pollution, officials said.
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Found on: Critical Mass London: November Report
London Critical Massers brave the cold and the cops to circle Parliament square, and also dedicate one minute of ‘bike high’ silence to the late cyclist Harriet Tory.
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Found on: NYC Critical Mass Swamped by Cops – Only 3 Arrests
At 7pm chilly Union Square North it seemed that the scooters cops, ‘undercover’ bikepigs, and ‘community affairs’ cops almost out numbered the 30 or so critical massers and legal observers.
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Found on: Bikes Belong Awards $26,400 in Grants
Bikes Belong will award $26,400 in grants this month to four innovative bicycling projects. The trails and programs supported by these grants will increase opportunities for urban riding and promote cycling safety.
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Found on: Nobody Bikes in L.A. : But they’d be a lot happier if they did.
A few months ago, I decided to try the absurd: I would start commuting the four miles to my office on a bike. In Los Angeles! I’d like to say it was environmental awareness or the high price of gas or even the desperate need to get more exercise…
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Found on: The Bicycle Diaries
Is it possible to live in America without a car? Uh, sort of.
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Found on: Rare Dunes Dulldozed For Bike Path
Some of the last sand dunes on Adelaide’s beaches are being bulldozed – for a cycling path designed to showcase the metropolitan coastline.
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Found on: Anchorage’s Winter Cyclists get Creative for Commuting
Several mornings a week, Jim Carden bundles up, pulls on sealskin gloves, straps on his headlamp and takes off down Lake Otis Parkway to work – on his bicycle.
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Found on: He Prefers his Bicycle to Me!
Okay, this doesn’t exactly qualify as news or a headline that relates to bike advocacy or sustainabiltiy… but… well what can we say… we couldn’t resist this one.
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Found on: Driving the argument home
A campaign is under way to lower speed limits to 20mph in urban areas, but what’s going to make drivers slow down? A bossy road sign, a hump in the road or a three-piece suite parked in the road?
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Found on: City Workers Can’t Keep Their Motors Running
Portlanders should soon see fewer city-owned trucks and cars parked with their engines running. The City Council unanimously approved an anti-idling policy Monday night that some say should apply to all privately owned vehicles, too.
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Found on: Interview: Paul Steely White, Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives
Today 86% of Manhattan-bound commuters manage to travel without a private car, yet in terms of everything from street design to traffic enforcement, our city is still catering to that 14% who drives.
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Found on: Free Refurbished Bikes For SoBay Homeless
Dozens of homeless people living Santa Clara County will get reconditioned bicycles Monday thanks to the Cycle ReCyclery, a program developed by a 17-year-old Los Gatos high school senior.
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Found on: Recycled Bikes Will get New Homes
For the first time in three years, Citiparks sponsored its “Recycle-A-Cyle” donation drive to provide refurbished bicycles to needy children during the holidays.
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Found on: Davis to Receive Award for Bicycling
The city of Davis will be presented with a
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Found on: Bush Takes Bike Tour in China, Meets with Jintao
US President George W. Bush, known for his passion for bike riding, visited the Chinese capital Beijing as guest of Chinese President Hu Jintao, and took a ride with the national bicycle team as they trained in preparation for the 2008 Olympiad to be held in China.
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Found on: Letter From New Orleans #2
As I was returning the beautiful red bike[[image:bikes_copy.jpg::inline:0]] that my friend Kristen had generously offered for my use while I was in refugee mode in Cleveland Ohio, I was thinking about the many bikes we will find in dumps and on the sides of roads around the flooded areas back home.
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Found on: Rise in Bike Deaths Gives Edge to Clash Over Cycling in New York
Jen Shao, the immigrant owner of a Chinatown souvenir shop, wasn’t trying to make a political statement as she pedaled her bicycle through downtown Manhattan two months ago. The 65-year-old woman biked, her family told reporters, because she found it easier than walking.
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