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Biking in Buenos Aires Just Got Easier: Introducing the City's New Bike Paths

by Paula Alvarado, Buenos Aires on 02.10.10
Cars & Transportation

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Photo: Courtesy of Buenos Aires government.

If you're thinking about traveling to Buenos Aires, consider taking your bike with you. The promise of 100 kilometers of new bike paths is becoming a reality with new safe, separated-from-traffic lanes popping up in different parts of the city. Take a look at the map inside.

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Los Angeles as a Bike-Centric City

by David DeFranza on 02. 5.10
Cars & Transportation

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Image credit: Good

Los Angeles is famous for its traffic and its unaccommodating attitude towards pedestrians. Good asks if a bike freeway could change that.

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The Nada Bike Revolution. Say No, by Acting Positive

by Warren McLaren, Bundanoon, Australia on 02. 4.10
Cars & Transportation

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There's nothing like an ambiitous target to concentrate the mind on problems and solutions. The Nada Bike project plans to get 1 million young adults onto bikes, not just recreation, but for their daily transport. How? They can join the revolution through a $100 USD membership fee, for which they'll be sent "the world's simplest bike frame." *

Nada Bike is a venture of Project M, "a program designed to inspire young creative people by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world." And their rallying cry goes like this: "Now is the time for a whole movement that says no. No gas. No foreign oil. No cars. No paint. No gears. No logos. No cutesy. No bullshit. Brains. Muscles. Humans."

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Plywood Flatpack Bike And Scooter: Hit or Miss?

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02. 3.10
Cars & Transportation

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Designer Nicholas Belly won second prize in L'ARGUS design competition with his flatpack scooter and bike. Our skilled translators quote Belly:

"The beginning of the 21st century will be about sustainable development, and the era of "always more" will give way to an era of simplicity. So how will we get around in this era of "sobriété"?

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How They Keep Bike Lanes Clear in Copenhagen

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02. 2.10
Cars & Transportation

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We have not had any snow yet in Toronto, so I have not yet had to complain this year about the traditional use of bike lanes for snow storage. Over in Copenhagen, Mikael at Copenhagenize shows how it should be done, with dedicated machines called snow slingers that "rolls along eating up the snow drifts and spitting the snow into a truck driving next to it. It can fill that truck in 5 minutes."

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Ant AV Tricycle For Dancing in the Streets

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02. 2.10
Cars & Transportation

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Jonathan Igharas takes a cargo trike from Beijing and re-introduces it "into the context of contemporary urban street culture, this music inspired trike enables DJs and VJs to freely roam city streets and meander through the narrowest of alleyways" Just what we needed.

It is "conceptualized to become both a vehicle and platform for urban communication and interaction" and "to create sensory-filled social interventions."

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The Helmet Lock: Never Carry Your Helmet Around Again

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02. 1.10
Cars & Transportation

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Bike helmets are as much of a pain when they are not on your head as when they are- what do you do with it? Most people use U-locks, and if the helmet designers gave a moment's thought to the issue, they could adjust the hole pattern so that you could actually put a U-lock through them. But they don't, so you either have to carry your helmet around with you or leave it on your bike and depend on the kindness of strangers.

This wasn't good enough for inventor Blake Mills, so he developed this nifty little Helmet Lock.

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Just The Thing For The Bored Cyclist: The Bike Book Caddy

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 01.28.10
Cars & Transportation

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Really, riding a bike can be so boring, especially in stop-and-go city traffic. It is easy for subway passengers to read a newspaper to pass the time, but until now, cyclists have had to just look at the road. Now Performance Bicycle has solved our problem with the Book Caddy, just the thing to pass the time. Even better, it looks like an iPad would fit perfectly.

But be sure not to wear earphones; you want to be able to hear the cars around you. Via Dvice

A Great addition to How To Get Killed On A Bicycle

UPDATE it has been a preoccupation of mine that whenever there is a discussion about cyclists and pedestrians getting killed, the comments all blame the victim for blowing through lights and wearing iPods and talking on their cellphones. I wrote this as a tongue in cheek post after yesterday's post on blaming the victim.

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