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Fabulous - thanks - I lived in super bike & pedestrian FRIENDLY Ashland - Oregon for 10 years - makes life easier AND more FUN!

Posted by sean at October 7, 2006 11:18 AM

Reminds me of my childhood in Cambridge area, England. Flatlands, full of University students complete with bikes - wonderful. Lived in the 'Fens' of East Anglia for first 20 years of my life where the bike was (and still is to some extent) the main mode of transport. Ahhh ...memories :-)

Posted by Trevor Gay at October 7, 2006 4:03 PM

The bikes in Copenhagen are seemingly much cleaner and more upright than the ones in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, a 45 degree angle (or lower) seems to be the norm for storage

Posted by Dominic Dirupo at October 7, 2006 5:01 PM

I wish my area was a more bike-friendly place. I live in Boston. After visiting Amsterdam this year, where everyone rides a bike, I was so envious.

Posted by Rhea at October 8, 2006 7:27 AM

I'm with Rea: here in Madrid we also need more bike-friendly places. Too many cars means to many angry people. And we are plenty of holes (a lot of roadworks everywhere in the city) so riding a mountain bike would be quite fun! ;-)

Posted by Franc at October 9, 2006 6:55 AM

Bikes are such a practical solution. A trip to Thailand will convince anyone of this. I wish they had Bike taxi's in Australia.

Posted by Steve at October 9, 2006 8:07 PM

I'm in Westwood in Los Angeles and somehow I've managed to find a great bike route to work. Unfortunately the building management here is relatively unevolved and they occasionally take issue with the dozen or so regular bicyclists who roll their clean, well maintained bikes 30 feet through the lobby and into the freight elevator. (The building doesn't offer secure bicycle parking.) This antediluvian attitude seems to be pretty well ingrained in property management companies all around the country. What gives?

Posted by Tom at October 10, 2006 3:09 PM

I've just added a second bike to the collection (yes, two bikes, not two Jags...) and this was before I finally managed to see An Inconvenient Truth! The first is at my partner's house and the second either lives on my landing or in the back of my car (It's a folding bike as I live in a first floor flat in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales). We get quite a few cyclists around here - tourers, tourists and the determined, in rain, hail, sleet and snow...

Unfortunately we're also getting an increasing numbers of Chelsea Tractors too.

Posted by Keith Rickaby at October 11, 2006 3:27 PM

Keith, I Googled "Chelsea Tractor" and it showed a nice, small Lexus SUV. Nothing wrong with that.

Please take Al Gore's "Truth" with 2 grains of salt--the first being whether it is really global warming and the second being the cause. I eat, drink, and sleep root cause analysis as a living and frankly, the GW scare crowds' "analysis" doesn't add up. The prime factor never accounted for is the SUN, for pity's sake.

Posted by Mike at October 12, 2006 3:35 PM