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iBike?
Apple is known for its taste in pretty much everything, and that seems to include bikes. Everaldo Coelho has posted a photo of one of the bicycles made available to Apple employees on the One Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, California. This was reposted on WIRED, and readers there identified it as a M3 Mixte from Public Bikes in San Francisco. A Public Bike employee added: "The bikes were a special order from Apple and the ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Twin Cities on Two WheelsNice Ride MN, Minesota's great bike sharing program, is growing up fast. There are already a good number of bike stations (as you can see on this map), but they are expanding: They started last year with 65 stations and 700 bikes, and this year they're planning to end up with around 115 stations and 1,200 bikes. Reception has been good so far, and only one bike has been stolen (not bad compared to other public bike sharing programs). Check out...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Better for Economy Than Car-Only Streets
A new report by the University of Massachusetts' Political Economy Research Institute confirms that bike lanes are not just good for our health and for the environment, but they are also very good for the health of the economy. Some of the ways it brings benefits are: Tourism, more traffic to local businesses, increased property values, healthier citizens, etc. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Cycling queen Mia Burke - here she talks about the magic of cycling, but now she's turning her sights on cyclist-pedestrian civility.
About a dozen pedestrians get killed in the U.S. each day. The majority of these are males, and a majority of the incidents occur in urban areas. Link that with the fact that many a cycllist thinks every ride is a race and a workout, and it's not understand to see why pedestrians might be looking at urban cyclists as just another danger in their quest to cross streets without mishap.
While is why Mia Burke, the reigning queen of bikeability in Portland (an...Read the full story on TreeHugger
New York City Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson has recently started biking, and in this video he tells us why he decided to take the plunge and why he thinks more bike lanes are a good thing for NYC. It's great to hear him speak out and walk the talk. If more politicians and officials actually went out there, maybe cyclists would be getting better and safer infrastructure... Via StreetFilms. See also:Read the full story on TreeHugger
Coexistence
The video above is part of Vélo Québec's Partage la Route campaign (site in French, but video above in English). The general idea is to educate both drivers and cyclists on how to coexist peacefully and share the road while maintaining best practice...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Do You Remember How You Felt When You Learned to Ride a Bike?
Here's one for all the 5-year olds out there who are having a hard time learning to ride a bike. Don't despair, it's worth the effort, as this little man explains. "Believe in yourself... keep practicing and you'll keep getting better and bette...Read the full story on TreeHugger
2,000+ Stations, 50,000+ Bicycles Now, 175,000+ Expected by 2020
File this one in the category: "Learning from China". Hangzhou's bike-sharing system is an inspiration for the rest of the world. The fundamentals aren't so different from what is being done elsewhere (like Vélib in Paris), but the ambition is on another scale. The Hangzhou Public Bicycles are well integrated into the other mass transit modes, the number of bikes and stations is growing very rap...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo: Public Bikes
iBike?
Apple is known for its taste in pretty much everything, and that seems to include bikes. Everaldo Coelho has posted a photo of one of the bicycles made available to Apple employees on the One Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, California. This was reposted on WIRED, and readers there identified it as a M3 Mixte from Public Bikes in San Francisco. A Public Bike employee added: "The bikes were a special order from Apple and the ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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