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ETSY Employees Haul 600lb of Compostables Each Month By Bike

Taking responsibility for their own waste, ETSY team members haul biodegradable trash to their local community farm by cargo bike.




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Can a Bike-Powered Blender Really Change the World?

Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.




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From bottles to bike lanes: the first PlasticRoad opens in the Netherlands

We have lots of waste plastic and not much use for it, so why not use it instead of asphalt or concrete?




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A bike parking facility in Tilburg is even more beautiful than their bus station

It even has moving sidewalks for bikes. This is how you get people out of cars.




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30% of the new bikes in Paris' Vélib’ Métropole bike-share system will be electric

The second generation of Paris' bike-sharing fleet will see 20,000 bikes hit the streets next year, and 30% of those will feature an electric drivetrain.




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Can lessons be learned from vandalism of dockless bike sharing bicycles?

...or does this augur the final breakdown of civilization?




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Here’s a riveting new e-bike design from Avial

This Finnish design doesn’t look quite finished but it is ingenious.




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Brompton Folding Bike Championships Come to the USA

If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March




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Young Swedish Firm Designs Bike Palace for Philadelphia

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all




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Bike sharing comes to Philadelphia, finally! 60 stations with 600 bikes (video)

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.




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Why is Philadelphia such a bike success story despite having few bike lanes? (video)

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.




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Wing Bikes is selling an e-bike that costs less than a New York Metrocard

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.




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What makes a bike-friendly town?

In which I argue that bike-friendliness should be measured by how well a town caters to its most practical, regular, and vulnerable of users, not tourists.




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Students Build Bike-Powered Charging Station from Scratch

Northern Arizona University student from a range of departments built the charging station piece-by-piece to educate fellow students on the energy used by their gadgets.




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British Columbia promotes active transportation (e-bikes! scooters! skateboards!), Vision Zero, $850 incentive for e-bikes

There is so much in their new strategy that I can't get it all in the title.




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New York e-bike law bans carrying kids

This is, in fact, one of the things that e-bikes are really good at. Another dumb move.




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If governments are going to subsidize electric vehicles, why not e-bikes?

Eben Weiss, the Bike Snob, is an unexpected source for this proposal to save the environment.




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On MNN: Bikes stopping for red lights! And other reporting from Copenhagen

Also a look at smart phones for boomers and for refugees, and making the Raspberry Pi higher.




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Finding A Perfect Tike Bike

trioBike has released the next version of its tri-functional cargo bike, which we first wrote about here. The 2.0 Balanced is an aerodynamic and sleek-looking kid-hauler. And the detachable bike, a Shimano Nexus 7-speed, also looks great when you are out




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Scotland is subsidizing electric bikes to encourage sustainable and active travel

This is something North American governments should copy.




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How to build a solar-powered bike (lots of photos)

These pictures from the Sun Trip 2018 race prove the only limit is imagination. Congratulations to Sun Trip race winner Raf van Hulle (tech spec of his bike below).




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How to build a solar powered e-bike charging shed in sunny Eugene, Oregon

Kent Peterson does it with off-the-self stuff, but it should be easier than this.




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New York's new e-bike rules are a botch that miss the entire point of the e-bike revolution

It simply doesn't recognize that some e-bikes are just bikes with a boost, and is unfair to older or disabled riders, or long distance commuters.




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Islamic Cycling, Space Tourism, Norway by Bike & Ski? Wend Magazine Has It All

Wend magazine continues to bring together intriguing stories about human powered adventures from around the world. In the current issue, they inform us that in 2010 officials in Isfahan,




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Bay Area Bike Share getting ready to launch in San Francisco on August 29th

Bay Area Bike Share is about to launch in San Francisco, with plans for 700 bikes and 70 stations around San Francisco, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Jose.




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1 mile of a protected bike lane is 100x cheaper than 1 mile of roadway (Chart)

Think bike lanes cost too much? Let's put it into a little perspective.




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Does the world need a glow-in-the-dark bike?

It's a nice idea, as long as it isn't sending the wrong message.




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Uber buys JUMP, a dockless e-bike startup, and this is a good thing

Another tool that makes life easier to live without a car.




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People who walk, bike and ride scooters are all fighting over crumbs.

It's time to take back the streets from all the cars and make room for alternative modes of transportation.




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Study finds that e-bike riders get as much exercise as riders of regular bikes

E-bikers use their bikes more, go longer distances, and often substitute it for driving or transit.




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Storing bikes? The Pushbike Arc lets anyone pack'em, stack'em and rack'em

This Australian design takes the work out of parking bikes.




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Four Boutique City Hotels That Let You Use the Bikes for Free

More and more, urban biking has become one of the best ways to see a lot of a city in a short span of time, so it's a no-brainer that more hotels are offering free bikes along with the price of the room. In




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Mobile coworking bus lets professionals work, hike, bike & surf (Video)

This renovated bus is a mobile coworking space that brings location-independent professionals out into the great outdoors, combining work with a hike, a bike trip or a surf ride on the waves.




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Man bikes on water to clean up plastics

Ladies and gentlemen, we've finally reached peak TreeHugger.




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Bike industry bigwig says bikes will need to communicate with self-driving cars

They want to build beacons into bikes. Will implants in pedestrians be next?




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Grobike brings the sharing economy to kids’ bikes

Why buy a kid's size bike when you can rent the right size bike every year?




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Why millennials are destroying our infrastructure, and why bike lanes destroy religious freedom

And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.




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Super-fun bike adventures in Montreal! (videos)

What's more fun than riding with 25,000 people through car-free streets on a beautiful day (and night)?




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Montreal's 2014 Tour de l'Île: 25,000 people on a 50km bike ride around the city! (video)

One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!




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If you want your city to replace parking spots with bike lanes, use perspective

One of the biggest challenges of making cities more bike friendly is that most of the road space is already "used up." Adding bike lanes means removing something. That's when a bit of perspective comes in handy.




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Do bike lanes cause air pollution? Nope. In fact, they can fight climate change.

A new study shows that in fact, if you build them, people use them and drive less.




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New York laws regulating e-scooters are almost as silly as the rules for e-bikes

They are still banned in Manhattan where they would be most useful. Why not ban parked cars instead?




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Hydrogen-powered e-bike cranked up to 93 mile range

E-bikes will eat cars, and H2 bikes will eat Toyotas.




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ITDP: e-bikes and e-scooters are climate action

Micromobility can solve the last mile problem and reduce carbon emissions.




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More Schools Join the Pay-You-to-Bike Bandwagon

Image via: LA Citystreets Clark U, Rice University, U Minnesota are all launching bike-sharing programs, along with the City of Minneapolis. Towson University has launched several green transportation programs - sadly no bike sharing, yet. Many of the




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The Electric Bicycle World Tour and What The World Looks Like from an E-Bike (video)

Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage




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Diesel Motorbike Speed Record Smashed

The DIE Moto, the diesel-engined motorbike which we have covered before, has broken the land speed record for a diesel motorbike, with a speed of 130mph.




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BMW proposes elevated e-bike cycleways to ease congestion & speed commutes

Instead of banning cars from city centers, this automaker recommends elevated roads for electric bikes & scooters to ease congestion and emissions.




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What's your bikeshed?

If you're in the Netherlands, your bikeshed must be huge, but what qualifies as a bikeshed in your city?




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Build your own bike at the Bamboo Bicycle Club

It's a miracle of sorts, transforming a pile of sticks into a traveling machine.