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Massive rain causes havoc in Beijing as infrastructure fails
Beijing's weak infrastructure lead to 37 deaths after a torrential downpour. You don't think much about your sewer system until it stops working.
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The best pictures of trucks inside trucks inside trucks
Here’s a kind of awesome way to get trucks off the road: put them inside trucks inside other trucks, like some kind of truck turducken. Turtrucken. It’s three, or four, […]
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Real world: For residents of one troubled town, climate change seems a long way off
In a town where jobs, violence, and housing are daily concerns, global warming doesn’t make the short list, a local hip hop artist and urban farmer tells the Slow Ride Stories crew.
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New York City is making cyclists go to remedial biker’s ed classes
New York City is treating wayward cyclists the same way a driver who’s racked up one too many DUIs might be: It’s sending them to class to review the basic […]
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Watch the winner of the first cross-country bike race cross the finish line — in 1982
In August of 1982, four men rode out of Los Angeles on the Great American Bicycle Race, the first transcontinental bike race ever — what ABC’s Wide World of Sports […]
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In Copenhagen, you can check bikes out from the bicycle library
We love a good bike share, but you have to admit that the bikes all look the same. Meanwhile, people’s bicycle preferences and needs are as varied as … well, […]
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Bike helmets looked ridiculous in 1948
Did you know that bike helmets in the 1940s looked kind of like a cross between a Devo outfit and a bouncy castle?
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The great cities vs. suburbs rivalry, and why it matters
The cities are winning! No, the ’burbs are! Why do we bicker about census numbers?
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Babes in bikeland: Advice for cycling with kids
A request for advice on biking with kids elicited a flood of enthusiastic and inspiring insights from parents about the joys of cycling with little ones.
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These fruit-shaped bus shelters make public transit more delicious
Waiting for a bus is never the most fun part of a commute, but if you lived in Isahaya City, Japan, you could at least pretend you were some kind […]
