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By Team Treehugger IN Tech & Transport Oct 21 2010
A little considered benefit of the bicycle's human scale is its relative simplicity. It's skeletal form is blatantly transparent, hiding little. And in this inherent simplicity a massive bonus. If things go wrong with a basic bicycle, the problem tends to be obvious and in most instances easily remedied. A few plain tools, coupled with a modicum of know-how and you're off and rolling again. + READ MORE
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By Team Treehugger IN Tech & Transport Oct 6 2010
Pedal assist electric bicycles, going no faster than about 15 kilometers per hour, are in my mind a savior of city women everywhere (even if they don't know it yet). After six months of riding a Sanyo eneloop I think e-bikes are transportation's best kept secret. + READ MORE
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By Team Treehugger IN Tech & Transport Sep 22 2010
Do you remember receiving your first bicycle as a child? A seminal moment for many of us. It punctuates that time in our lives when we were enveloped by a sense of unbridled freedom. + READ MORE
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By Team Treehugger IN Tech & Transport Sep 8 2010
As a new or continuing city cyclist, you are bound to hear the admonishment: "Don't ride on the sidewalk. It's dangerous." I swallowed that Kool-Aid for quite a while. After all, I want cycling to be a respected part of the transport infrastructure, and I want cyclists to be generally law abiding. But that word "dangerous," bandied about as it is so frequently in cycling, should serve as the first clue that there's more to the warning than you might think. + READ MORE
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By Team Treehugger IN Tech & Transport Aug 17 2010
I was late, I was late, for a most important date. A first date, and we were catching up to see a movie by Sydney Harbour. But when I made it to the bus stop, my bus had already left. I could see it blocks away, citybound, without me. I raced up the hill back home and quickly grabbed my bike, hoping to ride to the rail station in time to catch the next train. Yet, as I got there, I saw that too pull away from the platform. What to do? + READ MORE
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By Team Treehugger IN Tech & Transport Aug 6 2010
Sometimes cyclists in their eagerness to spread the gospel of biking forget a few of the basics of human nature. We tell people how fantastic cycling is, forgetting that nobody radically changes their lifestyle or ditches their major mode of transportation (the car) simply because their freaky bike-obsessed neighbor says so. Happily, however, if said + READ MORE
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By Team Treehugger IN Tech & Transport Jul 30 2010
For longer than I care to remember I've been a cycle commuter. For short to medium distances I can't think of a better way to travel. I lived on the inner city fringe for roughly 20 years. For half of that time I didn't own a car. I rode everywhere, for everything. To work, to play, to study, to lecture, to shop, to eat. I rode to first dates. I rode to awards ceremonies. I rode to business appointments. Like any activity undertaken on a constant basis, things will eventually go wrong. I have had my fair share of such 'events.' + READ MORE
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By Team Treehugger IN Tech & Transport Jul 29 2010
Since a car-crushing accident in 2006, our family went car-free, first in Gothenburg, Sweden and now Portland, Ore., and I thought I'd never look back. But a gift horse -- free use of a car all summer long -- has turned into a definite bike-life challenge. The Clif 2-Mile Challenge was exactly what we needed to put priority and a little motivation into our transportation choices. + READ MORE
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