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Chicks on street bikes


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Published July 19, 2010 at 5:09 p.m.

Since it’s friday and it’s time to get the dancing shoes on for the weekend, I thought I’d leave you with this video- it’s a gift from Caveman so you have something to think about on your bike ride today or your time at work ...

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Big Blue Bike


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Published July 19, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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While much of Workcycles’ business is B2B we rarely get photos of our bikes in action. They disappear into factory halls, paper mills and oil refineries, roam foreign parks, deliver sandwiches and sell coffee in far-flung cities. The industrial bikes are often purchased through supplier organizations who aren’t even sure where the bikes are [ ... ] ...

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's-Hertogenbosch strives to become a "cycling city"


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Published July 18, 2010 at 5:01 p.m.

Mark Wagenbuur produced this video showing the ambitions of s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands to become a true "bicycle city". Mark puts it as follows: ... The city of 's-Hertogenbosch articulated a new "cycle ambition" in 2009. The bicycle policy for the city is a long term plan to update cycle infrastructure (for both riding and parking) and for promoting cycling. Building for the new plan is already taking place. The city wants to become a real cycle city. The modal share of 33% in 2009 was

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De Soto, KS, reaffirms bicycle ban on 83rd Street


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Published July 18, 2010 at 4:14 p.m.

The ban on bicycling on 83rd Street in De Soto, Kansas, was put in place by the city council several years ago ... About one year ago, the city council reconsidered the ban and decided to wait until a current construction project was complete before removing the ban ... Despite the promises to remove the ban when the construction was complete, last December, when the construction project was complete, the city reconsidered and decided to retain the ban ... Now the issue has come up again on the

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Cycling Shorts : 18 July 2010


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Published July 18, 2010 at 2:56 a.m.

Lots to report on in today's shorts ... 1. The doping saga continues : The truth is out there ... TREK and Lemond have been subpoenaed this past week! The NY Daily News is at the height of their game, reporting on the minute-by-minute news in the doping drama with great finesse. Yesterday, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche had published mindblowing details of an interview with Lemond. Among the things Lemond told journalist Andreas Burkert was that Armstrong had vowed to pay $300,000

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STP


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Published July 18, 2010 at 1:16 a.m.

I completed my 6th consecutive one day STP today ... Details and photos coming soon, ... BIKE ... LIFECYCLE ... ROLLERS ... TOTAL ... Today ... 205 ... 0 ... 0 ... 205 ... Jan ... 618 ... 0 ... 0 ... 618 ... Feb ... 692 ... 0 ... 0 ... 692 ... March ... 940 ... 0 ... 5 ... 940 ... April ... 934 ... 0 ... 0 ... 934 ... May ... 905 ... 0 ... 0 ... 905 ... June ... 1152 ... 0 ... 0 ... 1152 ... July ... 596 ... 0 ... 0 ... 596 ... _________________________________________ ... TOTAL ... 5852 ... 0

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The Quiet Goombah


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Published July 17, 2010 at 2:41 p.m.
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"The former Soviet state of Kazakhstan is the size of Western Europe, and is not so much of its own country as its own planet, a vast sameness of boreal forests and grasslands, boiling in summer and frozen in winter, a land the Soviets found ideal for growing wheat and testing nuclear bombs - 470 tests between 1949 and 1989, most of them thoughtfully done on Sundays, so as not to disrupt the happy productivity of the proletariat. The ensuing years have only added to its charms : the

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10,000 cyclists on the road for Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic


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Published July 17, 2010 at 12:51 p.m.

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Get Dirty: It’s the name of the game!


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Published July 17, 2010 at 12:45 p.m.

Robin Moore — the Portland OR film maker who lampooned road and fixed gear cyclists with his brilliant “All About Performance” music video — has created a new “MC Spandex” parody video. This time, he targets mountain bikers with “Get Dirty.” Enjoy this video by the “Dirty Crunk Freeride Thuggs.” Via Bike Portland. Related posts:Freakonomics [ ... ]Related posts: Freakonomics looks at used bicycle prices Marin County booby trapped trails Bikes banned from Slovak trails ...

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Representing Redux


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Published July 17, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.
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In light of recent events and comments, I thought it might be nice to reprint this post from July of last year ... If you ride a bicycle then you are one of a very small group of people in the Western World, and as such, should remember that each of us is important in the fight to create a safe place in the road for all of us to use ... Just who represents cycling? There are discussions about just that going on all over the place, these days ... I was thinking about this as I rode around on

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