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Found on: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
[[image:cuba_mini.jpg::inline:1]]Cuba was never a modern consumer of automobiles. For many years they made do with cars from the 1950′s and earlier, due to the embargo of imports from the U.S. since 1962.
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Found on: Former chef cooks up a new calling as a bicycle mechanic
By taking a job as a cook at the venerable Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. in April 2004, Tom Estrada earned enough cash to get himself a serious road bike.
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Found on: Book Review: Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen by Cari Best
Sally Jean, self-proclaimed Bicycle Queen and life-long cycling enthusiast, is devastated when she outgrows her trusty bike.
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Found on: Bicycle Helmets No Panacea
Bicycle helmets are a good idea and may be the law in some U.S. communities, but that can’t protect against every kind of injury, says a neurologist.
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Found on: Anonymous donor restores man’s bicycle
Jeremy Livengood has a bike again. And this time, he’s going to do a better job locking it up.
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Found on: LACM :: Friday, May 26th
On Friday, I rode again with LA Critical Mass. This is the one on the last Friday of the month, that leaves from Wilshire at Western.
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Found on: Pledge to see “An Inconvenient Truth”
Over 100,000 individuals have pledged so far to see the new documentary film by Davis Guggenheim, starring the man who should be our President – Al Gore.
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Found on: For Love of the Bicycle
Who loves the bicycle more – the man with the road-burned knees and the calloused back side, or the one dancing the hula on the 6-foot-tall novelty bike?
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Found on: You can learn a lot on 2 wheels
How very thoughtful and civic-minded of TTC employees to kick off Toronto’s Bike Week yesterday with a work stoppage that showcased for the city the merits of two-wheeled locomotion.
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Found on: Taking Holland for a spin
Not Lance Armstrong? No problem. Even novice cyclers find that biking brings out the best in the Netherlands.
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Found on: NYPD Continues to Harrass NYC Critical Mass
The police were out in full force harrassing the approximate 400 NYC riders this past Friday. Many cyclists were issued citations and arrested.
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Found on: Cops haul in bike activists
A bike ride through the streets of downtown Winnipeg ended in chaos and arrests.
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Found on: Subcultural Sensitivity
[[image:sc_farm_mini.jpg::inline:1]]Last night I joined up with the central LA critical mass ride. There were about 60 of us, including the always-fabulous sound system that turns our rolling conversation into a rolling saddle-dance party.
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Found on: Some Mexican Migrants Bicycle Into U.S.
The 110-degree heat and rough terrain of the Arizona desert would exhaust the fittest of cyclists, but these migrants are often middle-aged housewives or farmers, riding battered second-hand bikes for 30 or 40 miles.
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Found on: Ride of a Lifetime
Telford has been riding a bicycle for years, and on June 3 she will lead the 100-mile bike tour throughout Cache Valley.
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Found on: Namibia: Women in North Trained As Bicycle Mechanics
HILYA EKANDJO will soon return to Okathiku, her village in the North, as a qualified bicycle mechanic and she will teach other women the skill.
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Found on: The City Lites
[[image:citylitslogo_mini.gif::inline:1]]City Lites is an African American non-profit organization with a vision to restore health, family, community and above all hope for the South Los Angeles area.
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Found on: Rolling Protests Hit Bump
Critical Mass bike rider Josh Schlossberg and Eugene police Lt. Pete Kerns say they both have the same goal: a safe, effective demonstration of the rights of bicyclists on Eugene roads with no tickets issued.
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Found on: The Fruits Of Our Labor
The BikeTown Africa crew see firsthand how ten months of hard work, and a hundred bikes, translates into smiles for children in need.
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Found on: Shall We Bike?
“In most planning and construction efforts, bicyclists’ needs are not adequately considered, causing bicycles either to be excluded or hindered
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Found on: Bicycle parade highlights DENR celebration of World Environment Day
World Environment Day is celebrated globally every 5th day of June in more than 100 countries, while the whole month of June is celebrated as Philippine Environment Month.
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Found on: Latest Surge in Fuel Costs Leads Americans to Re-Examine Alternative Transportation
Bad for individual pocketbooks, stock markets and economic prospects, the skyrocketing gas prices may finally do what nothing else could
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Found on: Bicycling may be activity to change your life
The long line of people on bikes trying to better themselves stretched north along the George Parks Highway for tens of miles on Saturday.
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Found on: Council adopts city road tax programme
Budapest’s city council last week adopted a radical proposed programme to reduce city traffic by the introduction of a so-called road tax and a drastic increase in parking fees.
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Found on: Legally Speaking – with Bob Mionske: When is a bicycle more than a bicycle
I have a question that has been a long standing debate over many beers at the pub, and every one seems to agree I am wrong except me.
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