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Via Planetizen: This video from the Wall St. Journal Online gives a first-hand look at the current bicycle culture in Beijing, and the variety of bike types available.

Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no! Please don’t change, China! And please, can people/media stop mentioning electric bicycles as the next big thing? We’ve successfully maintained [...]

On Monday afternoon I went for a last tour through Paris, cycling around Montmartre, on Avenue des Champs-Élysées, around Place Charles de Gaulle, underneath the Eiffel Tower, across Montparnasse, along the banks of the Seine and oozing through 1 Arrondissement back to my friends’ house, then quickly catching my train back to Amsterdam. I edited [...]

From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, via Bikeprovidence.org:
Bicycle czar will try to tame city streets
Mayor creates post to improve cycling
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Stephen Patchan prefers urban cycling to pedaling through the countryside because it’s “more exciting, for obvious reasons.”
The new Pittsburgh bike-pedestrian coordinator’s job, though, is to make pedaling or walking the city’s 89 [...]

It’s more than ironic that MINI tries to promote a car through the concept of cycling, don’t ya think?

From Wired:

“Getting attention in Beijing is tough these days if you aren’t an Olympian wearing gold or a protester unfurling a Tibetan flag, but Mini’s managed to do it with a rickshaw made from the back half [...]