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"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." - Ernest Hemingway, By-Line

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2008’s Divine Holy Ride: The 8th Annual Nacimiento Tour

On Sunday, January 6, 2008, bicyclists and motorists alike will take to the streets to enjoy the eclectic and divine nacimientos of Los Angeles's Eastside.

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Nuts 'n' Bolts - Headset Replacement Tools and Tips

Hardcore bike mechanics sooner or later will want to replace a worn headset. If turning your handlebar feels gritty or notchy and you can't get smooth motion with no perceptible shake after cleaning, lubricating, reassembly and adjustment, it is time to replace the whole set.

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Team C.I.C.L.E.: Next Stop, Cyclocross USA National Championships

Now, 4 of the team's Elite women are on their way to Cyclocross USA National Championships in Kansas CIty, Missouri to vie for the Stars and Stripes jersey.

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Wanted: Epic Rides, Epic Stories

Continental Cycling… Heard of it? Those that take part in this style of riding believe that this undefined culture is road cycling without the politics and synthetic aspects.

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Video: Ciclovia: Bogotá, Colombia

This lastest film provides us with an insider view of what is known as Ciclovia—”a weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic

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Two Travelers from Brazil

About two weeks ago, I was stepping out of a pizzaria with 2 pints of beer in my belly when I saw two bicycle travelers hitching up their gear.

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Pedaling the eco-commute

This battery-assisted bike is not only good for the earth, it's good for the wallet.

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Putting The Brakes On Bike Thieves: System Alerts Security If Someone Takes Your Bike

Technology being developed at the University of Leeds could put the brakes on bicycle thieves and may also be useful in flagging suspicious events in public places, say researchers at the University of Leeds.

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REYES ROLLS OUT BICYCLE PLAN

Reyes urges planners to prioritize bikes in City’s public transportation plan, calls for pilot project in his district

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Windy city wheels: Bicycling in Chicago

It is supposed to be one of the USA's best locations for cycling, but James Daley had a rude shock in store

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If you build it, they will ride

To a random observer, last weekend’s activities at a vacant auto repair shop and storefront church on 39th and East Broad Streets probably wouldn’t look noteworthy.

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Bicyclists for Obama?

Portland's fervent bicycling community has discovered that Democrat Barack Obama is the only one of the Democratic presidential candidates who explicitly encourages bicycle transportation in his platform (and I didn't find much from the Republicans either, other than that Mike Huckabee rides his bike to the grocery store).

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Going green with a cycleway above the streets

LIKE the walkways built in the canopies above rainforests, North Sydney Council hopes to lift pedestrians and cyclists above the urban jungle, with an ambitious plan to build an elevated path running from the southern end of the Harbour Bridge to as far north as Falcon Street.

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Bicycle group pedals to new home

The Atlanta Bicycle Campaign put a new spin on moving day Saturday. A three-mile spin, actually.

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Looking beyond gridlock

Whatever the appeal of the car may be, mobility has little to do with it.

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Puget Sound cyclists raise thousands for flood victims

Puget Sound-area bicyclists know how to organize protests, from monthly romps through downtown at rush hour to two-wheeled demonstrations against controversial new arrivals to the transportation scene.

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GhostBikes.org: New site connects international ghost bike projects

Site Will Be a Hub for International Efforts to Remember Fallen Cyclists

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Critical Mess

The time is September 1992. The place is San Francisco's hipster dive bar and guest house, Zeitgeist.

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BRAIN Announces Green Survey

Bicycle Retailer & Industry News is conducting its first ever industry-wide “Green Survey.”

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San Francisco: Bicyclists to protest delay for bike plan

Bike activists plan to rally on the steps of City Hall at 1 p.m. today to protest what they view as official foot-dragging in completing a court-ordered environmental review of the city's bicycle plan.

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Japan's 'fix'ation with a risky ride

A single-gear rocket, usually with no brakes, overtakes the once ubiquitous mountain bike.

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India's techies take to cycling

When GV Dasarathi pulls up his bicycle at a traffic intersection on his way to work in India's InfoTech city, Bangalore, heads turn.

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Pedalling environmental cause

THOUSANDS of Victorian schoolkids are breathing easier after helping remove almost 1600 tonnes of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

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Critical Mass bike ride may be at braking point

Cyclists in the monthly event in Santa Monica say they may pedal elsewhere because of citations from police.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES : FILMED BY BIKE

Filmed by Bike, a festival of bike themed movie shorts, is now accepting entries for the 2008 festival.

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Proving his mettle with pedals

There's a whole brother- and sisterhood of people who commute. I see many of the same faces on the bike path, from the "professor" who rides at a maddeningly slow pace, to the girl on the mountain bike that's too small for her, to the many hipsters on fixed gears.

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Midnight Ridazz are bound to keep on riding

In the heart of car culture, massive bike rides are hitting the streets. Should you admire them? Scorn them? Or join the pack?

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Elevating Our Quality of Life Through Choice

I always enjoy visiting the Netherlands. It's a small, prosperous, nicely designed, concerned and elegant statement of community with the sort of underlying cultural friskiness that enabled them to become the first Enlightenment trading empire.

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This bike looks like a car

"That's quite the little thingy you've got there," says a young man – ring in his nose, backpack, slouchy trousers – as he passes Ray Mickevicius's bright yellow vehicle, sleek as a dolphin, on Queen's Quay E.

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Snow is no hazard for those who Bike Winter

While most of us allow the falling temperatures to flatten our ambition, some Milwaukeeans think that there's no time like tundra time to hop on their bikes and go for a ride.

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CPSO continues Christmas bike tradition

For the past 17 years, the Christmas wish of local children for a bicycle has been granted by the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office.

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