Latest Stories in Bikes - Page 13
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Crazy Bike Rides in Peru's Mountains (Videos)
Check out these great bike videos filmed with a camera-on-helmet. It's a nice adrenaline rush!
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If Parents Want Kids to Bike to School, Why Are So Few Doing It?
A new survey in Australia shows less than 1 in 10 kids biking to school, despite a majority of parents who think it would be a good idea.
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Portland's Bike-Share Moves One Step Closer to Reality
After some delays back in 2008, it's finally happening! BikePortland reports that the city of Portland has released Request for Proposals (RFP) to try to find an operator for its bike share program.
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Bike Safety PSA by the Baltimore Police Department
Sometimes the most basic things are also the most important. Here are some safety rules for motorists and cyclists.
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Will $5 Gas Make You Get Your E-Bike On?
Obama can't control gas prices, but you can, by never worrying about them again after you've bought an e-bike for the majority of your transport.
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Building a City Where No One Steals Bikes (Video)
Stealing bikes will always be too easy. Removing the incentive do so is the key to a society without bike theft.
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Celebrate Pi Day with the Picycle!
Today is Pi Day, the best day of the year (well, it's in the top 3.1415)! Pi Day was created to commemorate the mathematical constant π (pi), and it is celebrated today because March 14 is written as 3/14 in the month/day date format.
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Bike-Friendly Cities: How the Dutch Do It (Video)
It's not magic. It's not genetics. The Dutch decided to create bike-friendly cities. It was no accident, and it can be replicated around the world.
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Colorful All-in-One Wheel Converts Bike into Electric (Video)
Electric bike conversion kits come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is as simple as changing your front wheel.
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Consumer Reports Survey: "Bicyclists Who Don't Let You By" Rank 5.7 On A 10-Point Annoyance Scale
Consumer Reports survey indicates bike riders who don't let car drivers by are among "Top driving gripes."
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Bicycle Buses Let Dutch Kids Pedal Together to School
It's been said that the most important lessons in life are not learned in the classroom, and perhaps in no place is that more true than in the Netherlands where the act of heading to school is itself so enriching.
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Incompetent Bike Thief Caught on Camera in NYC
The hooded bandit displays his skills - or lack thereof - by trying to steal a handlebars from a locked bike on the Lower East Side.
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Even in the 1940s, If A Cyclist Got Killed They Blamed the Victim
This cycling manual would actually be hilarious if anything had ever changed for the better, but it hasn't.
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Ahead of the Circular Conference Bike Trend
This popular amusement now graces the campus of Google and many city streets, but where did you see it first?
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Two Per Cent of US Road Deaths Are Cyclists
Bad news: 630 cyclists died in 2009. Good news? That's down 12% on 2008.
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Moscow Artist Sparks Local DIY Bike Map Movement
As the government moves to make Russia's traffic-clogged capital more bike-friendly, citizen cyclists are already creating and distributing their own bike maps to help other two-wheeled travelers find their way through the chaos.
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Shape Field Bike: A Classy, Retro & Lightweight Porteur-Style Ride
Based on old-school lines and outfitted with thoughtful details of wood, cork and coins, this bike is a destined to become a classic.
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Montreal Man Seen Living on Bicycle -- For 382 Days (Video)
A funny portrait of a man who films himself eating, sleeping, working and flirting on his bike, for over a year.
