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The Heartbreaking Creation of a Ghost Bike
The bicycle was black before it was white. It lay on the pavement behind Alan Nakagawa’s house in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood. An English-style cruiser, it had fenders, a swept-back handlebar, and a wide leather seat. Nakagawa and two friends, Isaiah and Julio, got busy, pulling off the tubes and tires, disassembling the brakes, sanding the frame. Nakagawa is an artist who primarily works with sound, but on this evening his medium was paint—two cans of white Krylon ColorMaster.
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Danny MacAskill’s Wee Day Out
Red Bull
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Bike balancing 200m high up
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Bike lock developed that makes thieves immediately vomit
Crowdfunded creator of SkunkLock says device emits special smelly formula when it is being cut. By Alan Yuhas.
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Polish City Unveils Beautiful Glow-in-the-Dark Bicycle Path That's Charged Directly by the Sun
A blue glow-in-the-dark bike path was recently unveiled in the Polish town of Lidzbark Warminski. It relies on luminophores to harness energy directly from the sun.
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Thousands of lorries to be banned from London for cyclist safety
Mayor to introduce rating system that will ban 35,000 vehicles with the worst driver visibility from capital’s roads by 2020
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Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on the box
Dutch manufacturer Vanmoof discovers that printing a picture of a flatscreen TV on their bike boxes reduces delivery damages by 70-80 per cent
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Diplomat’s daughter, 23, cycling in Ottawa bike lane ‘right-hooked’ by turning truck and killed
The death of a 23-year-old cyclist on a downtown Ottawa street Thursday morning has re-ignited the debate about bike safety in this city. Nusrat Jahan was struck by a truck while riding her bicycle near the busy intersection of Lyon Street and Laurier Avenue. It appeared the truck and the bike were both travelling eastbound when the cyclist was “right-hooked,” or struck, as the truck turned right onto Lyon and she proceeded east on Laurier.
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Insane Urban Downhill Mountain Bike
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Collecting Data to Push for Safer Biking on Valencia | Streetsblog San Francisco
During yesterday evening’s rush hour, safe streets advocates, started collecting hard data about how often the bike lanes on Valencia Street are blocked by motorists. Take a wild guess what they found: the bike lanes are a de facto loading-and-drop-off zone for cars.
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Paris Opens the First Stretch of Its 28-Mile Bike Superhighway
Paris has inaugurated its first bike highway. Opening last May, the 0.5-mile stretch of freshly paved road alongside the Bassin de l’Arsenal is part of the Réseau express vélo (“REVe”), an initiative to build fast-track bike lanes free of motorized vehicles. It’s only the first section of the soon-to-be 28-mile network of bike highways that will cross the city by 2020. In 2015, the city voted unanimously to spend €150 million ($164.5 million) on expanding and improving its biking infrastructure, including REVe (which translates to “dream” in French).
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Power to the people: electric bikes take off in North Korea
Wheels have long been a sign of economic status for both individuals and nations, and on the lightly trafficked streets of Pyongyang, capital of impoverished and isolated North Korea, electric bicycles are the hottest new ride on the road. Almost unseen two years ago, the Chinese-made two-wheelers are a common site this week in the city, which hosts the first congress of the country's ruling Workers' Party in 36 years.
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Secret Thermal Camera Footage Allegedly Shows Seven Pro Cyclists Using Illegal Motors In Bikes
Rumors that elite professional cyclists have been riding with small, illegal motors tucked away in their bikes have swirled around the pro peloton since 2010. But seemed a myth until Femke Van den Driessche got caught with a...
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It’s a Speed Trap! — California Cops to Check Bicycle Speed with Radar and Ticket Fast Bikers
Speed traps on bike trails. California cops will now be issuing tickets to cyclists.
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You have to carry ID to ride a bicycle in NSW from March 1
Cyclists aged over 18 in New South Wales are expected to carry photo ID when they’re out riding from today, March 1, under new rules introduced by the Baird government. The fines for a range of offences are also increasing by up to 600% as part of a new safety program introduced by NSW roads minister, Duncan Gay. The penalty for not wearing a helmet increases from $71 to $319, along with holding onto a moving vehicle, while riding at night without lights increases from $71 to $106.
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Cycling Doctor Declares World Better than Expected
A doctor has spent six years cycling around the world - and found a much more hospitable planet than he had ever imagined.
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These RFID Tags Allow Danish Cyclists To Turn Traffic Lights Green
It really must be heaven to be a cyclist in Denmark. You get lovely, dedicated infrastructure, like this new bridge. You get cities that run analyses showing how bikes are good for people, and cars aren't. And now, if you live in Aarhus, you can get a special tag to help beat the traffic lights. Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city, is currently running a trial where cyclists are given RFID tags that they attach to their wheels.
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Germany gives green light to bicycle highways
It's every cyclist's dream: no red lights, no trucks, just a clear, smooth lane to zoom down with the wind in your face. Welcome to Germany's first bicycle Autobahn. Fans hail the smooth new velo routes as the answer to urban traffic jams and air pollution, and a way to safely get nine-to-fivers outdoors. As a glimpse of a greener urban transport future, Germany has just opened the first five-kilometre (three-mile) stretch of a bicycle highway that is set to span over 100 kilometres.
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Study finds no link between cycling helmet laws and head injury rates
A major Canadian study has found no link between cycle helmet legislation and head injuries, and has recommended governments focus on providing bike infrastructure to protect cyclists instead. Between 2006-2011 the study recorded hospitalisation data from different Canadian jurisdictions, some with mandatory helmet laws, some without. Of an average 3690 hospital administrations per year in riders aged 12 and over there were 622 hospitalisations...
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If Roads Were Like Bike Lanes
For those brief moments that you happen to be in a bike lane, biking in the city is wonderful. But it always seems that bike lanes end before they even begin, just like a summer romance or a slice of pizza.
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