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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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Does A Bikeway Access gate Closing Alone In Los Angeles Make Any Sound?

My friend Stephen Box, tireless cyclists and cycling advocate and founder of the Bike Writers Collective (BWC), attended what he related the next day on the LAist blog to be something of a contentious March 18 meeting of the L.A. Transportation Committee

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You’ll wonder why you ever drove a car

One of our readers, Katie Faust from Georgia, sent over this slick bike ad campaign.

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Pasadena ARTRide : March 14 6PM

Join C.I.C.L.E. and friends for a magnificent evening of art and bicycles.

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Great Energy, Wrong Targets

Absolutely, things are moving too slow. Causing some ruckus might help, if it doesn't backfire. The question is whether that ruckus translates into results. READ MORE...

bicycle advocacy: FAIL. Bike Activism, WANT!

Where has low volume friendly advocacy gotten LA the last 2 years? Nowhere.

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Field Museum Launches Shared Bike Program for Employees

The Field Museum will add to its already extensive "green" record by launching an innovative Shared Bike Program on March 31, 2008 - just in time for spring.

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Field Museum Launches Shared Bike Program for Employees

The Field Museum will add to its already extensive "green" record by launching an innovative Shared Bike Program on March 31, 2008 - just in time for spring.

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Some students prefer life in the bike lane

For a few high school students, riding a bicycle to school actually provides a greater sense of freedom than driving a car.

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Kids urged to walk, bike or carpool to school

Members of the San Carlos School District community want students to ditch their parents' cars and try getting to school under their own power.

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Reported Attack on Ballona Creek Bike Path

A forwarded email from the LA Tri Club Dispatch reports that a cyclist was attacked on the Ballona Creek Bike Path on the afternoon of Sunday, March 23rd.

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Fort Collins Bike Library opens April 5

Fort Collins residents will soon be able to park in Old Town, borrow a bicycle and head to the Poudre River Trail - free of charge.

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A new bicycle built for two

Engineering students design bikes for people with disabilities

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Baby you can ride my bicycle

Before their acrimonious separation, Sir Paul McCartney could often be seen bicycling happily along the seafront with Heather Mills near their house in Hove, East Sussex.

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School district uninterested in building bike community

Garfield High School in the Central District is nearing completion of a two-year, $100 million remodel. The changes to the building are dramatic, but one major change is dramatic for all the wrong reasons: It will have little to no bike parking and no secure covered parking for bikes.

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Bicycle business is brisk

Many bicycle shop workers across York County used the same word to describe business on Wednesday. Busy.

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Bicycle stores wheel into sales increases

Mike Larmour figures a shiny, new $1,000 bicycle will pay for itself in three months.

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Freddy Jisp on his life as a bike courier, tooth problems and why he hates medical receptionists

I'd been a road racer, though never successful, and ever since seeing that flic, Quicksilver, where Kevin Bacon plays a bike courier, I wanted to transfer the skill.

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SF: SFMTA TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE ON BICYCLE ROUTE IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will hold an open house today on possibly nearly doubling San Francisco's bicycle lanes for the next generation of bicycle route improvements.

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Tempe testing colored bicycle lanes

The main tool cities have used to demarcate bike lanes has been paint. There’s the white line for the lane, and sometimes a bike icon painted in the lane.

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Pedal Power and Biking for a Better America

Long ago, in a galaxy far away, people coped with urban congestion by turning to the bicycle as an integral part of life.

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Questions about the Cupertino crash ...

As one cyclist was lying dead in the road, another lay dying, and a third was writhing in agony, the Deputy is reported to have paced the road, saying "my life is over" and "my career is over."

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Portland's Hopworks brewpub is new, green and bike-friendly

Christian Ettinger's new beard is growing in nicely, but he'll be happy to shave Tuesday, when Hopworks Urban Brewery is scheduled to open after a 21-month gestation.

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Bellingham librarian reconnects with joys of bike commuting

The 60-year-old Bellingham resident talks about her family’s influences, her commute and how it feels to be back in the saddle again.

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Get a free bicycle-blended smoothie from allégo

To raise awareness of sustainable transportation alternatives, and to announce the launch of its 2008 commuter habits survey, allégo Concordia will be giving out free, bicycle-blended smoothies.

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Ultrafit: 'A large fella on a bike'

Scott Cutshall of Minneapolis went from 501 pounds to 232 in under three years, thanks to a special bike, soup for breakfast, and a lot of determination.

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Bike fatality map highlights dangers on Santa Clara County roads

I completed a rather sobering project this morning — mapping all the bicycle fatalities involving vehicles in Santa Clara County since January 1997.

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Nissan, Infiniti Recall 480 Hitch Mounted Bicycle Racks Made By Thule

Thule determined that a pinch point exists on the bicycle rack, which could cause a serious hand injury.

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Opinion: We need to help the earth now

With the price of oil skyrocketing recently to over $100 per barrel, gas companies have shamelessly capitalized on the unaware yet dependent consumer, hiking prices at the pump to over $3.50 a gallon.

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Third-grade bicyclists pen essays for contest

Seven talented third-graders at Banfield Elementary were recognized with prizes Friday for their bicycle-themed essays.

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Huge rise in cycling into city

CYCLING is becoming the fastest growing way of getting to work, with a 21 per cent rise in one year.

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'Bike boxes' begin to take shape at 15 busy Portland intersections

The first of 15 "bike boxes" appeared at the corner of Southeast 7th Avenue and Southeast Hawthorne Street in Portland on Monday.

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Bicycle a phone call away

Cellphones hold the key to unlocking a new generation of rental bicycles aimed at broadening public transport options in Auckland and other northern centres.

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It‘s really cool to ride a bicycle to school, mayor tells pupils

EDEN district mayor Rudi Laws paid a quick visit to Calitzdorp near Oudtshoorn yesterday to deliver stationery, bicycles and desks to schools in the area.

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Smart money's on the Big Dummy

Threading his way through heavy traffic on a bicycle, Nick Sande has grown accustomed to drivers peering out their windows at him.

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Vehicles For Change

Dozens of riders armed with banners, speakers and playful outfits took to their bikes to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the Critical Mass bicycle ride in Berkeley Friday evening.

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Trek Bicycle Corp. is recalling Trek MT220 Girls Bicycles

Trek Bicycle Corp. is recalling Trek MT220 girls bicycles sold nationwide from April 2004 to June 2007.

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Gas-free commute: Two wheels, one helmet

As gasoline prices creep higher and higher, lots of drivers are looking for ways to get more internal combustion for their buck.

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DOT must examine bike safety

The Pedestrian Bicycle and Safety Act was unanimously passed by City Council yesterday, demanding the Department of Transportation identify the 20 most dangerous intersections for pedestrians and examine possible safety and capital improvements for these hot spots.

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Alternative energy? Newton needs pedal power

The Comprehensive Plan for the city of Newton supports bicycling as one way of “reducing reliance on auto driving” and emphasizes the importance of safety “on all roads and in all neighborhoods.”

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We're all bicycle advocates

As tree-huggy as bicyclists appear, political constituency-minded thinking speaks volumes to the power brokers in Washington DC.

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AAA Chicago Supports City of Chicago Bicycle Ordinance

AAA Chicago supports the City of Chicago ordinance which would impose strict fines on motorists whose actions endanger bicyclists, and we urge Chicago’s City Council to pass it.

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Naked bicycle riders scuffle with police in Eugene

Police officers trying to control a mass ride of naked bicyclists decided against making any arrests after the confrontation intensified.

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Bicyclists take up pedaling art

Next week, Shay Sanchez and Liz Elliott are reprising Pasadena ArtRide, a five-gallery sampler of Pasadena ArtNight, the biannual extravaganza featuring the city's many theaters, museums and galleries.

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Americans learn bikes cut costs and improve fitness

At a time of soaring gasoline prices, expanding waistlines, and growing worry over climate change, more Americans are getting on their bikes.

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Move ecologically

Until everyone is able to choose between buying a second-hand hybrid or a regular motor vehicle at a similar price, the most reasonable form of inner-city transport is the bicycle.

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City committee targets bicyclists, motorists

Mayor Daley’s plan to curb motorists whose reckless driving endangers bicycle riders -- with $150 fines that rise to $500 if there’s a bike crash -- cleared a City Council committee Wednesday amid demands that the city do the same to cowboy cyclists.

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It's war on our roads and cars should not be the winners

YESTERDAY the State Government announced new regulations and penalties for cyclists that transgress the law.

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An urban bike trail that's done right

If Sacramento can do it, why not the Bay Area?

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Owl has a hoot on bicycle rides

An owl at a wildlife centre has been taught to ride on the handlebars of his keeper's bicycle.

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City allocates funds for bicycle parking

By a unanimous vote, the Burbank City Council approved more than $150,000 in state and local funds to construct a bike parking station at the Downtown Metrolink Station.

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Google Maps 'Bike There'

The folks at googlemapsbikethere.org have created an online petition to get Google to add a "bike there" component to their maps.

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Southeast urban farmer rides bike, not tractor

Kollibri terre Sonnenblume is a proficient organic farmer. Throughout the growing season, dozens of families come to Sonnenblume every week, selecting newly-picked produce.

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Stairway, bike path still blocked at border

Nearly a year ago, crews put most of the finishing touches on Friendship Plaza, a $3 million project near the San Ysidro Port of Entry to make the pedestrian entrance to Mexico more friendly to walkers and bicyclists.

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How bicycles came to be

Remember your first bike? Was it a Christmas or birthday present?

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City council approves Acequia bicycle lanes

Visalia City Council members Monday voted 4-1 to include bicycle lanes in any engineering plan to convert Acequia Avenue from one-way to two-way traffic this year.

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Pushed too far, cyclist presses charges

Alleged 'prank' brings first prosecution under '3-foot law'

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Bikeway or the Highway

SIRENS WAILED. RED LIGHTS FLASHED. Police chased some alleged bad guys, and traffic on the Pasadena Freeway came to a dead stop. Typical Los Angeles. What happened next wasn't.

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Bicycle advocates face big challenge

MARIN BICYCLE advocates are convinced they can move the needle and get more residents to walk and ride bikes instead of driving cars.

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