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Found on: Bikers and cyclists are kindred spirits
Riding around Europe on motorcycles, as I do, I have developed hundreds of short-lived but intensely amicable relationships with pedal cyclists. These fellow refugees from urban congestion know what it means to pilot a narrow, fragile vehicle amidst heavy congestion.
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Found on: Bicycle industry eyes urban market
If car manufacturers are flooding the market with luxury brands, why should the bicycle industry lag behind? Bicycle companies in India are now focusing on urban markets and are looking to expand their base in the professional and adventure categories.
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Found on: Opinion: UCI Bike Policy
One would expect such a university to do everything in its power to encourage positive changes in the fight against global warming—which is why many people in the UCI community have been left scratching their heads in reaction to the sudden change in bike and skateboard policy on campus.
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Found on: Tahoe counties to harness pedal power
Nevada County’s winding, narrow roads, with little to no shoulders, inhibit a number of would-be bicyclists from taking to the street, but state funding now could provide relief.
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Found on: Eco-Cities Take Root
The home — and the neighborhood — of the future is on its way.
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Found on: Oregon Handmade Bicycle Show
The first ever Oregon Handmade Bicycle Show will showcase the work of 27 Oregon based bicycle builders
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Found on: Spokesman for bike fanatics
A FIRST BICYCLE is a big event in most children’s lives, but for Ron Miller that rite of passage ignited a passion that would be with him for the rest of his life.
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Found on: Al Gore Solves Energy Crisis – Divulges New Energy Source!
Gore's solution is an alternate energy source he calls "pedal power". Pedal power is clean. Pedal power is free. Pedal power is good for the environment.
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Found on: Bike Commuting 103: No Shopping Spree Necessary
[[image:xtra_cycle3_mini.jpg::inline:1]]With a wealth of options available to bike commuters, picking the right gear may seem overwhelming – but it doesn't have to be.
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Found on: Critical Mass ready for Halloween ride
Cyclists are donning Halloween costumes for Friday’s Critical Mass ride — the monthly event that has hit the streets the last Friday of every month for 14 years. They’re hoping that the spectacle, however, doesn’t attract too much heat from the NYPD.
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Found on: Bike Dislike: Laid-back Santa Monica clashes with Critical Mass
TWILIGHT HAS SETTLED on Palisades Park, and more than 100 bicyclists have gathered at the foot of the Santa Monica Pier, when Alex Thompson, wearing a heavy Army jacket with sergeant stripes, climbs up on a garbage can.
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Found on: Pedal pushers
If you're ever around the Capitol or K Street Mall during the week, you’ve probably seen these guys. Maybe you have heard the bell first, maybe you didn’t, but next thing you knew they were pushing past you in their space-age, “zero emissions” vehicles right there on the sidewalk. And they were pedaling. Hard.
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Found on: Blunt Instrument: Peddling commuter anger
Has is it ever occurred to you that maybe bicycle riders don't belong in the city? It did to me the other morning as I crawled across the Story Bridge at about 12 klicks-per behind some stupidly smug, selfish git on one of those dumb-arse bikes you sort of lie back into like a recliner [...]
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Found on: Tailpipes and Tribalism
Most of us never question our decision to buy and drive cars because we identify cars with our culture. “Driving is what people do.”
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Found on: DWP finds walking creates congestion
Every once in a while, there's a sentence in a city report that seems so patently ridiculous it should be put in a museum.
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Found on: QBP Offers 5,000 Ways to Give Mobility
Through its 5000Bikes campaign, Quality Bicycle Products is mobilizing the industry to donate enough revenue to purchase 5,000 bicycles for World Bicycle Relief (WBR).
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Found on: Nuts ‘n’ Bolts – Ten Dollar Fixed Gear Conversion
[[image:fix_mini.jpg::inline:1]]I know that what I am about to discuss here will raise some purist hackles, but for those who have a UBBTS (Universal Bike Boom Ten Speed) and want a quick, dirty, and cheap fixie conversion, read on.
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Found on: Finding Libert
MY plane landed at Charles de Gaulle airport. I took the RER train into Paris, dropped off my bag and, two hours after landing, I was riding a bicycle down the Boulevard Saint-Germain.
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Found on: A New Breed of Biker
On the last Friday of September, my bright red spandex biking outfit left me feeling out of place, even though I had just joined a group of hundreds of fellow cycling enthusiasts.
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Found on: Peddling the right message for Melbourne
THIS morning Melbourne glimpsed what the future could, and should, look like. About 25,000 bicycle riders were expected to pedal to their mettle as part of Ride-to-Work Day.
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Found on: Letter to LA Bicycle Community from Metro
Metro sends an open letter to the L.A. cycling community addressing the recent incident involving local cyclist Stephen Box, and a Metro bus operator.
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Found on: Bill will require bicyclists to use lights on sidewalks: Fines range from $50 to $100
On Thursday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 478. The bill requires bicyclists to use lights on sidewalks and pathways.
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Found on: On your bike
SO HOW good was your trip to work today? Were you crammed into a train, stuck in stop-start traffic in your car? There is another way. Tomorrow more than 60,000 people around Australia are expected to choose pedal power for the 14th annual Ride to Work Day.
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Found on: Route-sharing
[[image:quiet_streets_mini.jpg::inline:1]]The other day I caught up to a rider who looked new to the road. Not because they were riding dangerously, timidly, or displayed behavior that served as proverbial “training wheels.” New, because I hadn’t seen him before – I like to keep an eye out for the regulars.
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