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Urban Bikes

Bakfiets!

miles Jun 20, 2013 Tagged with bakfiets, cargobike

Bakfiets is Dutch.  Bak = Container.  Fiets = Bicycle.  So the Dutch, being a very practicle people, call these type of bikes “Containerbikes.” (a more fun translation might be “boxbike” but box in Dutch is “doos”) I’ve been wanting one …

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Good News, News

Vienna embraces the romance and culture of the bicycle

miles Jun 18, 2013 Tagged with bikesharing, urban planning

Faced with increasingly congested streets, the Austrian capital is embracing cycling with a rental system, bike zones and special housing Go to article

Thoughts

Time for a change

miles Jun 18, 2013

To quote an often repeated phrase, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” After 20 years online, the old Self-Propelled City site was looking a bit dated to me. And new posts on it had …

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