"As Susan B. Anthony once said, “I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.”"

Each Sunday and holiday certain main streets of Bogotá, Cali, Medellín, and Colombian other municipalities, are blocked off to cars for the exclusive use of runners, skaters, and bicyclists. At the same time, stages are set up in city parks. Aerobics instructors, yoga teachers and musicians lead people through various performances. Bogotá's weekly ciclovías are used by approximately 2 million people (30% of citizens) on over 120 km of carfree streets.[1]

"BICYCLE TYPOGRAM – PRINTED

Print…print…print. The Bicycle Typogram (original graphic here) is printed. Card, flood, print, pull, dry. Each impression represents a unique moment in time. Registration E tabs, press micro-adjustments, stencil-restricted ink deposits, attempts to make each moment an exact replica – the tick tock of a perfect clock. But perfection is not easily reproduced."

"Finding and silencing clicks, squeaks, clunks, rattles adn other annoying noises"

Rentable bike cases.

"Kenk: A Graphic Portrait is a groundbreaking 304-page journalistic comic book detailing the life and times of Igor Kenk, "the world's most prolific bicycle thief" (The New York Times and The Guardian). In Summer 2008, Kenk was arrested and nearly 3,000 bicycles were seized in one of the biggest news stories of the year. Built from more than 30 hours of never-before-seen intimate footage taken over the year leading up to his arrest, Kenk is a thought-provoking and surprisingly funny portrait of an outsize neighbourhood figure and a city in flux, both wracked by the forces of gentrification and by a burgeoning global environmental and economic crisis that promises to define our generation."

"VéloColour is a custom bicycle painting shop in Toronto that specializes in contemporary bicycle refinishing and vintage frame paint restoration."

We were on an empty country road, so we rode side-by-side. This meant conversation, and a chance for me to gain an oxygen advantage, by doing the following:
* Ask short questions that require long answers. “So, tell me about this big ride you did last weekend. Don’t leave out any details.”
* Parry questions back to the questioner. “Sure, I’m following the Giro whenever I get a moment, but I haven’t been able to track it for a few days. What’s been happening?”
* Play deaf. “You know, cars keep passing. Could you repeat everything you’ve said in the past 90 seconds?”

"Indeed, that kind of urban cyclist and others more advanced in bike-know-how will be able to hop into this colourful building on Cecil Street, east of Spadina, and use the tools that owner, Anthony Darcy, will have available to cyclists to perform quick fixes themselves. After you've wiped the grease off your hands, Sonic steps in with a hot cup of organic coffee as well as light, homemade fare and a rooftop view of the 510 streetcar bustling up and down Spadina."

If you speak ‘nerd’, or know someone who does, then the rest of this could apply to you. There are some high-level FAQs about data formats, and a link to a form to fill-out if you have some data and you want to partner with Google to get your data integrated into Google Maps. The data we most care about here, of course, is bike-related data — bike lanes, routes, paths, etc.

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