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Found on: NYC Critical Mass Riders Prepare for Police Harrassment
As in past months, police officers are expected to give numerous false tickets to riders, even those following the very letter of the law.
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Found on: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true – on a bicycle built for two
They cruise. They come to an almost dead stop and still remain on their bike. They speed down the street at 35 miles per hour and never fall off.
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Found on: Bloomfield work shuts down free-bicycle program
A program that’s fixed 1,850 broken bicycles over the last six years and given them to children, immigrants and other people in need has been closed since Aug. 16.
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Found on: L.A. Basin Is Again Nation’s Smog Capital
The Los Angeles Basin is once again the smog capital of the U.S., beating out Houston and the San Joaquin Valley, air officials said Wednesday.
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Found on: Cities of Joy
At about the same time professionals in Delhi were finalising the First Master Plan for the city in the early 1960s, Jane Jacobs published her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
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Found on: Commentary: Car-Free Day is not enough
For nearly a week now, City of Montreal officials have been patting themselves on the back, offering congratulations all round following last Friday
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Found on: Firing off at fixed-gears
As the Indian summer heats up, you’ll notice the bike lanes will be nose to tail with bikers
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Found on: The Bicycle Man Is Evicted
Moses had set up his bicycle repair and refurbish operation four years ago in a facility now belonging to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission.
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Found on: Car-Free is So Sexy: Life Can Be So Car-Free Audio Ad
Listen to the new audio ad for the Life Can Be So Car-Free Celebration this Saturday September 30 at the New Los Angeles State Historic Park. Who says car-free transportation isn’t sexy?
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Found on: Clean, Renewable Energy Powers Performance Bicycle
Performance Bicycle has become the first U.S. sports retailer to use renewable energy exclusively to power its stores, corporate headquarters, distribution centers and call center.
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Found on: Adventure Cyclist Conquers Cook Strait.
[[image:bikeboatsmall_copy.jpg::inline:1]]For many years I have thought how much fun it would be to cycle around our beautiful backcountry bush-clad lakes. As a keen mountain biker and road cyclist most of my life, I wondered why cycling on water wasn
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Found on: Unlicensed to Kill
Andy Frattin believes the tougher punishments will help deter dangerous drivers. “The threat of jail will keep people walking on the straight and narrow,” he said. “Driving is a privilege, not a right.”
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Found on: Peddler’s Market
Life is never without its frustrations. So they say. And certainly that is true of my life. The operatic message summing up the operant daily mine.
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Found on: Life Cycles
The driver that killed Michael Katz was driving on a suspended license, admitted to not paying attention to the road and driving while exhausted, he received little punishment.
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Found on: Cycle of Life: CICLE shows how life in L.A. can be car-free.
If clogged streets, sky-high gas prices and polluted air aren
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Found on: Memorial Ride for Ilia Pankin
There is a memorial ride for the Honor of Ilia Pankin going down this Friday night the 22nd. A ghostbike will be installed at the site in his honor.
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Found on: Happy Car-Free Day!!!
[[image:life150_copy.jpg::center:0]]This year Los Angelinos will have the opportunity to celebrate World Car-Free Day by coming to our fabooolous event. Bands, film, bike rides, walk-about, and bring a picnic and see an awesome sunset over the LA skyline. Listen to our new Radio Spot too.
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Found on: Soapbox Transportation
Promoting soapbox alternatives is a strategy that some San Fernando Valley residents are beginning to adopt to create a more livable city.
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Found on: With a good bike box, you can see the world
There are two things I call “baby”: my dog and my bicycle.
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Found on: Cyclist hopes to share his pedal passion
For drivers concerned about the skyrocketing price of gasoline these days, don’t bother comparing the fuel efficiency statistics of the latest SUVs. There’s no need to research ethanol or vegetable oil, leave the pickup truck gate down or check tires for proper inflation.
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Found on: Top Ten Things News Gets Wrong About Crash Reports
In today’s Oregonian, I read that a vacationing cyclist was hit head-on by a sleepy driver in Newport. The newspaper story noted that the cyclist wasn’t wearing a helmet. That probably wouldn’t have made a difference in a head-on crash, yet is always included in bike crash reports. That’s just one bee in my bonnet [...]
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Found on: Time to Re-Think Glacier
I’ve ridden the Going-to-the-Sun Highway up to Logan Pass many times, and it might be the best bike ride in the New West. But every time I travel up to Glacier to enjoy this premier bike ride, I struggle with trying to understand the regulations imposed on cyclists by the National Park Service (NPS).
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Found on: Another Hand When You Need It
Author: Harv Bicycle mechanics never seem to have enough hands. Tools to hold caliper brakes closed have become known as, “Third Hand” tools. Then came the “Fourth Hand” tool which pulls tension on a control cable whilst clamping down the cable anchor. Now… you guessed it! We have the “Fifth Hand” tool! Necessity for this [...]
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Found on: Judge Puts Brakes On New S.F. Bike Lanes
An opposition group called CAR (Coalition for Adequate Review) is challenging the loss of parking and street space for neighborhoods and business.
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Found on: Can the Bicycle Save Civilization?
Thanks to the triumph of motorized vehicles over the past century, North Americans, who constitute some five percent of the world’s population, consume fully a quarter of the world’s energy.
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