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Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists | Wired

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Click to Open Overlay Gallery GERMANY GETS A  lot of things right. Huge beer mugs. Amusingly long words made up on a whim. And best of all, a highway system made for going as fast as possible.  Now, Munich wants to extend the thrill of the open highway to cyclists with  a network of bike lanes  running through the city and into the suburbs, in a bid to encourage car-free commuting. [Keep reading at Wired]

How Groningen invented a cycling template for cities all over the world @guardian

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  In Groningen, an estimated 61% of all trips are made by bicycle. Photograph: Alamy Motorists woke up one mid-70s morning to find new one-way streets made direct crosstown journeys impossible by car. Forty years later Groningen boasts two-thirds of all trips made by bike … and the cleanest air of any big Dutch city Traffic lights with rain sensors to give quicker priority to cyclists on wet days … Heated cycle paths so cyclists won’t slip during bouts of frost … This might sound like science fiction to you, but in the Dutch city of Groningen it will soon be everyday reality.  The inhabitants of this lively northern university city regard their homestead as the cycling capital of the Netherlands. They might very well be right: 61% of all trips in Groningen are made by bicycle, rising to more than 70% for  trips made to educational institutions . You might think the city authorities would be satisfied with these statistics. But apparently it’s not enough, and new plans are in

35-year-old American who thinks modern life is too stressful works 6 months a year, then lives on $10 a day adventuring around the world on a bicycle @bi_europe

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Most of us lead a life that revolves around work. The average US worker, for example, clocks  47 hours a week , and when you add the  time we spend commuting , another five to 10 hours, it pushes our total work-related hours over 55. Then there's  work-related stress , which damages our health. All of that can paint a vulgar picture of life in our modern world, one that two or three weeks' vacation can hardly remedy. Then there are those who refuse to buy into all that and choose to live on the fringe, like  Ultra Romance , a 35-year-old from the Connecticut River valley who works as little as possible — usually for six months a year — and then goes adventuring around the world with his bike and modest camping gear. [Keep reading at Business Insider UK]

Beefed-Up Cyclist Moves Car off Bike Lane with Bare Hands - Video

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One Shot: Brandon Semenuk's unReal Segment

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