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As noted before, Montreal has its own public bike-sharing programme, Bixi, which is proving to be a great success with 3,000 bicycles in 30 different locations.
But Montreal was already a cycling-friendly city, with the Bixis complementing an already energetic scene. Not that many people seem to wear helmets but the city’s highly sophisticated system of [...]
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July 7, 2009
Montreal has Bixi and a Great Bike Lane System
June 22, 2009
The Suitcase Bike
The Suitcase Bike: It’s Real! : TreeHugger
From China comes this bike that can transform itself into a suitcase. There was some doubt whether this bike would actually be produced, but now we’ve heard that it’s in production (see photos below) and will be available sometime later this year. A prototype of the bike was on [...]
June 22, 2009
Electric bike
Schwinn’s New Line of Electric Bikes : TreeHugger
Do not attempt to adjust your monitor, this is really a picture of an electric bike. Schwinn’s new electric bikes are probably the slickest and most smoothly integrated set of power-assisted velocipedes we’ve yet seen. Schwinn teamed up with Protanium Inc. to develop a whole series of rides [...]