Summary Box: Trek introduces chainless bicycles

FREE OF CHAINS: Wisconsin-based Trek Bicycle is introducing two chainless models this holiday season, using technology most often found in things like motorcycles and snowmobiles. The nation's largest domestic bike manufacturer is part of a movement to bury the finger-pinching, rust-prone sprocket and chain.

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Trek introduces chainless bicycles

Pedalers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.

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SKorea Promotes Bicycles to Ease Traffic

South Korea is turning to an old-fashioned solution for dealing with its always-clogged roads: encouraging people to ride bicycles.

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We've all seen the car driving down the street with a garbage bag duct taped over a broken window. As dangerous (and hilarious) as that may be, it is by no means the limit of amateur automotive engineering ingenuity.

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The article is two pages long. If you prefer to view it on one page with fewer graphics, click here. Getting people out of cars and onto bicycles, a much more sustainable form of transportation, has long vexed environmentally conscious city planners.

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Their many YouTube videos show them, in fetching co-ordinated outfits, performing on three bicycle-seat clarinets, 'plus bicycle pump panpipes, tuned bicycle bells and a handlebar flute.'

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VICENZA, Italy — Italian motorists face tougher penalties under changes introduced earlier this month. One of the biggest changes to Italy's highway and penal codes is that bicyclists will now face the same punishments as those driving a car.

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Bicyclists in Tijuana, Mexico take a weekly ride along the city's "dangerous streets" -- apparently safely -- and partially to promote safety.

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One cinema in Liverpool uses bicycles to provide electrical power.

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It's a miserable morning in the centre of Bristol. The rain is tipping down and only a halfwit would think of hiring a bike in this weather. So count me in.

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A Berlin brothel has come up with a novel way to negate the impact of the global economic crisis and target a new group of customers at the same time -- offering a discount to patrons who arrive on bicycles.

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Top six weirdest sexual practices, voted by readers of cracked.com, range from sex with cars, through to humping park benches and even signs...

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Las Vegas Sun pushes scary pedaling in busy traffic

Some newspaper editorial page writers should put a bit more thought (mainly common sense) before preparing editorials --- and, in the case of the Las Vegas Sun, check with the metropolitan editor to see what staffers are working on, suggests Grumpy Editor.

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A man in China re-invented the bicycle using Reuleaux polygons shaped wheels from pantagon and triangle shapes

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Copenhagen is vying for the title of the western world's best bike city.

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Plans for a new urban housing project solely for cyclists have been unveiled by Vienna city officials. The "Bikecity" project unveiled today (Fri) envisages an area of 250 flats on the Danube River waterfront in Vienna-Brigittenau which can only be reached by foot or bicycle.

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Bayla Shepley pulled inner tubes off used bike rims on a recent rainy Saturday in Jamaica Plain, Boston.

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MELBOURNE will soon have a Paris-style network of cheap public bike hire stations in the inner city, with the State Government committing $5 million to the scheme in Tuesday's budget.

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What would you do with 18,854 gallons of gasoline? According to the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, that's the amount of fuel bicyclists in the Sacramento region saved in May 2008 when they chose to commute to work and run their errands on two wheels inst …

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Denver is striving to be a bike friendly city, but some people say not friendly enough. They cite the 16th Street Mall as an example, where bicycles are banned.

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"By putting 22 beaten-up but perfectly serviceable old bicycles back on the road, they've cleanly beaten Montreal's new BIXI bike-share project out of the starting gate. But an upstart Point St. Charles collective of activists wasn't gloating about it yesterday.

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An NYT fashion reporter raves about the wonders Dutch bicycles could do for fashion-conscious New Yorkers.

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Cantor who represents the "new ideas" of the Republican party bravely strikes out against the powerful bicycle lobby and once again demonstrates why the Republicans are out of office.

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Representative Wayne Krieger (R-Gold Beach) wants everyone who owns a bicycle in the state of Oregon to pay a mandatory, $54 registration fee (and then renew it for another $54 every two years). -- -- -- -- --

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A popular bicycle rental scheme in Paris that has transformed travel in the city has run into problems just 18 months after its successful launch. Over half the original fleet of 15,000 specially made bicycles have disappeared, presumed stolen.

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PARIS — The Velib bike rental system has been hailed by Parisians and tourists alike for its convenience, as well as being a "green" alternative to getting around the French capital via taxicab, bus or metro.

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For immigrant workers, as with so many of us in the suburbs, life boils down to the job, the bed and the travel between.

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AUSTRALIANS' enthusiasm for cycling has continued in tougher economic times, with bicycle sales outstripping car sales for the ninth consecutive year in 2008.

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