If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.The coolest program a city could sponsor is not quite here in Sacramento yet, but Washington D.C. is a heck of a lot closer than Paris.
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I know many of you have heard of this already. I think it has been almost a year and a half since it was first launched but I just ran into this project again and it still amazes me. The fact that Paris set out to place over 20,000 bikes on their [...]

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I saw this here and just had to go to the site to check it out. Granted, the Go-One isn’t the bike for the hardcore bike enthusiast but I think it hits a solid niche, filling some needs that traditional bikes don’t.
It sports some cool features. Namely, the option to plug in for when [...]

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Check this out. The site is in French with a few other languages, but here is the idea:
Holland’s penchant for public pedaling is nothing new, but French firm JCDeaux’s new public bike-sharing system looks to rival even the Dutch model. Already a hit in Spain, Austria, and Belgium, Cyclocity members need only pay their minimal [...]

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Sometimes I feel like such an oddball biking to work and not going on Costco runs like my neighbors. I wonder if my fellow Americans (and neighbors) will ever change their ways to meet the crisis of the day.

It was encouraging yesterday to read this article in Sierra Magazine about the effort during WWII. [...]

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Here is a more eco-friendly (and ear friendly) choice for the crazy loud motorcycles that frequent midtown at all hours of the night.
Although going that fast and being silent sounds like a bad idea to me.

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Inspiration and a Sorry Lack of Follow-Through
Back in the first week of May, I saw the Million Mile May thing and started to write something for this blog. I rallied everyone to start biking and to register. We all kicked up our riding, we purchased a couple of indoor bike racks, Vanessa found [...]

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While not usually a topic I spend much time on, Ursula’s post on a Fat School brought the issue of childhood obesity to the forefront of my mind.
Let’s take the kids out of it because, as Ursula’ rightly points out, “they learn by example”. Why don’t we see the same trend among the Swiss (known [...]

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