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Found on: That Was the Year That Was
[[image:hanging_bikes_front.jpg::inline:1]] What a year for bicycling in Los Angeles! A virtual explosion of events, activism, and culture crammed into just 365 days. At the end of 2004…
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Found on: Bike Exchange Burglarized on Christmas
Thousands of dollars of specialty bike tools, bicycles, and cash were stolen from the Kalihi Valley Instructional Bike Exchange.
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Found on: RIDE-IN Movie Night!
[[image:ride_in_sm2.gif::inline:1]] Join us for a night of Bike Movies Jan. 11, at 8:00 PM.
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Found on: Car-Free Life Can Make Life Carefree
This is the story of a woman who did something wild. Not as a favor to society. Not to be a role model. No, she did it because — OK, let’s tell the truth: Nancy Vargo got rid of her car because she wanted more money for travel and clothes.
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Found on: Bicyclists with Bombs :: Riding with Osama
…such sins together occupied less of this fire-breathing dispatch than the Times
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Found on: New Video Evidence Shows NYPD Covert Surveillance of Cyclists and Protests
Democracy Now hosts a roundtable discussion on covert police surveillance of demonstrations in New York City. Newly released video tape shows what the New York Times describes as “the robust presence of disguised officers” since the Republican National Convention in August 2004. We speak with the New York Police Department, I-Witness video, and The New [...]
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Found on: Critical Mass Bike Rides Face Police Crackdown
Cycling advocates have faced targeted surveillance and policing over the past year. Democracy Now brings you excerpts from the documentary “Still We Ride,” which traces the police crackdown on Critical Mass bike rides in New York City since the Republican National Convention. [includes rush transcript]
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Found on: Tibetan Students Demand
A bicycle rally from the city to Amravati in Andhra Pradesh is being organized by Tibetan students in the city, to make the public aware of the violation of human rights in Tibet and also demanding a
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Found on: Lowrider Bicycles Remain an Austin Obsession
Terry Rocha’s latest creation began life as a demure Schwinn Sting-Ray in 1963 before being mothballed in the backyard of an elderly neighbor. Recently though, the bicycle entered its latest incarnation as “Dub Life.”
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Found on: NYC Cycling Soars but Rule Hamper Riders
Anticipating the transit strike a week ahead, Peter Onghena figured the best way to get to work from his home on the Upper East Side to his job in midtown would be to bike. But when he called up his office’s building manager, they told him that the commuting idea was his first strikeout.
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Found on: New York Police Covertly Join In at Critical Mass and Other Rallies
[[image:police162.gif::inline:0]] Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war, bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in an accident, a series of videotapes show.
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Found on: Happy Merry !@#$%
[[image:suicidal_snowman_copy.jpg::inline:0]] A special holiday message from us.
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Found on: Lib Dems Give TV’s Clarkson a Bike
The Top Gear presenter and newspaper columnist – who once told cyclists ‘do not cruise through red lights because if I’m coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun’ – was presented with the gift in a bid to change his attitudes towards those on two wheels.
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Found on: Transit Strike Is a Bike Rider’s Dream
New York City’s Transit strike may have inconvenienced millions of bus, subway and car commuters. But from a biker
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Found on: Riding a Bike to Work During the Transit Strike
[[image:bike_strike.jpg::inline:0]] This morning when we awoke to the transit strike, Gothamist knew that we were biking to work.
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Found on: Kids with Good Grades Pedal Off with Free Bikes
Eagerly peering at the bikes from behind Maria was her brother Luis, 10, who said he woke up at 4 a.m. yesterday. “I know it’s hers,” Luis said, grinning ear to ear. “But she’s going to have to share.”
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Found on: Super Legal: Bikers Obey the Law to Protest the Law
In the bright lights of a tennis court, a dozen of her fellow bikers were assembled, waiting for Blue to kick off the night’s “Super Legal Bike Ride.”
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Found on: ‘You’ve Gotta Believe that You Can’ – Winter Bikers Defy Weather
Just how crazy is it to commute by bicycle in Minnesota in winter? To Pete Saunders, it makes perfect sense – despite what his wife thinks.
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Found on: Send in the Clowns: Bicycle Clown Brigade to Shame Cars out of Bike Lanes
The Clown Bicycle Brigade prepares for possible transit strike by clearing cars from bike lanes. Nothing can shame a driver into moving out of the bike lane more than a pack of cheerful clowns on bikes. All drivers refusing to move will be ticketed for violating Section 4-08(e), which explicitly prohibits stopping in the bike [...]
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Found on: Los Angeles at Ground Level
You could say that Los Angeles has a love/hate relationship with the bicycle, but (in the manner of all things LA) it’s a rather eccentric one.
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Found on: Pedal Power
Groups win new federal funding for bike-related projects across America.
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Found on: Mandatory Helmets for NYC Cyclists?
The city of New York is currently considering a mandatory helmet law for all cyclists. Learn why this is not a good idea.
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Found on: Money Pours In To Replace Stolen Bikes
Disabled children and their advocates rejoiced Wednesday as more than $42,000 in donations flooded in to replace 30 specially crafted bicycles stolen last week from a Berkeley storeroom.
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Found on: Best Bet in Case of Transit Strike is to Pedal a Bike
If 34,000 members of the Transport Workers Union strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday, the best way to get to work may be by bicycle, and the city’s Office of Emergency Management is working to create and expand bike lanes in the five boroughs.
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