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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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New Properganda Celebrating the "Freedom Machine"

New properganda is in the house! Check out the latest cool submissions from Darshan and artist 72HW.

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Test Out Rose Bowl Loop Plans

If you’re one of the thousands who use the Rose Bowl recreation loop, the city wants to hear from you.

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The family that bikes together stays together

For Newton resident Michael McKay, 47, biking is more than just a way to stay in shape.

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22 miles of Obama sites viewed from a bike seat

Evan Kuchar, the Machiavellian individual who forced me to pedal a bike 22 miles the other day from downtown Chicago to Hyde Park and back, only seems easygoing and thoughtful, with the clipped voice of a grad student

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Women, bikes and harassment

I've heard it mentioned before that women cyclists are indicator species of good road design.

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Marine builds and rides a chopper style bicycle in Iraq.

What are some ways to relieve stress in a combat situation? For Sergeant Dustin W. Lambert you build and assemble a custom chopper style bicycle in your spare time

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Open streets: Sunday events bar cars

To the benefit of San Francisco and Bay Area residents, Sunday Streets events are traveling about the city this year, opening miles of roads to people and creating unusual opportunities for the intimate exploration of new neighborhoods.

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Cycle babble: podcasting on a bike

If you want share the delights of cycle ride try podcasting from the saddle and mapping the results

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Cyclists push velodrome for Memorial Coliseum

The dreamers whom Steve Brown bikes with can see it already: a velodrome, with a gasp-inducing view of downtown Portland, centrally situated to draw on the city's bicycle culture and attract businesses, families and world-class racers.

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The ‘Tour d’Admission’: Guidance Counselors Seeing Colleges by Bicycle

We don’t tend to think of our high school guidance counselors as having lives outside the office, but if we do, we probably don’t imagine them wearing athletically cut, peek-a-boo-in-the-back mesh jerseys, or skin-tight lycra shorts.

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First Multi-Speed American Bicycle Discovered

A lone surviving copy of a bicycle from another era, a chainless 3-speed relic manufactured in early 1900, has been recovered and is being restored; called "The Hill-Climber," it was the first multi-speed bicycle to be produced in America

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Look, Mom! No training wheels!

San Francisco mom and founder of Freedom from Training Wheels Jean Fraser offers tips and advice on a new way to teach your child to ride a bike.

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Metro’s Identity Crisis

The Metro is proposing to take LA's cycling community for a ride, one step forward and two steps backward, all in a misguided effort to revise the Metro's bikes-on-rail policy.

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Bicycle Trail at Hahamongna Sparks Debate

Delgado’s request came after the Friends of Hahamongna raised objections over the planned construction of the 30-foot wide bicycle trail at the HWP, saying the trail could damage the environment.

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Bike fashion shifts into high gear

to the discerning eye, there are a growing handful of items that set the fashionable cyclist apart - both as a rider and stylish guy - from the everyday pedal pusher.

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Take off your bicycle helmet, big boy!

A Berlin brothel has come up with a novel way to negate the impact of the global economic crisis and target a new group of customers at the same time -- offering a discount to patrons who arrive on bicycles.

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Bicycle Film Festival in San Francisco

The Bicycle Film Festival rides into San Francisco this week, presenting music, art, and lots of films, most of them shorts, that celebrate cycling.

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AAA extends its reach to bicycles

AAA Oregon/Idaho announced a profound expansion of its mission on Thursday.

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Confessions of a serial bicycle buyer

Is it an indulgence to own more than one bicycle? Maybe – but at least it's cheaper than yachting or cocaine

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Transportation Bikes Take Flight at Retail

What does the industry see as the next big thing?

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Dumping the Golf Carts and Using Bicycles at Naples Zoo

Oftentimes the reason why you do something is simply because it’s always been done that way.

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Bike Among the Ruins

While bike enthusiasts in most urban areas continue to have to fight for their place on the streets, Detroit has the potential to become a new bicycle utopia.

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From bush to bike - a bamboo revolution

On the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, next year's crop of bicycles is being watered by Benjamin Banda.

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Do bicyclists belong on the road? The San Francisco 2009 bicycle plan

The debate offers an interesting lens through which to look at the issue in San Francisco and to extrapolate to other cities across the country.

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"Bike Lady" turns passion for bicycling into educating kids

Kerri Martin of Ocean Grove is known as the "Bike Lady" to some in Asbury Park.

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Berlin Bans Brakeless Bikes

Not long ago, cycling enthusiasts took fixed-gear racing bikes out of velodromes and onto the streets, where they were a hit among bike messengers and hardcore urban cyclists.

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Bicycle Ballet, Paternoster Square, London

Live performance is easily affected by injury or illness, but this was the first time I'd seen a show delayed by a puncture.

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Back in the day, this was called a bike-decorating contest

Do you want to be a part of the Rotary Community Day Parade presented by Brookfield Renewable Power and Great Lakes Power?

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