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THE BIKE-SHARING ERA
This chart tracks the global increase in bike-share bikes from 2000 to 2013. Until 2006, the total was a flat line, but it then spiked sharply skyward. By the end of this past year, there were more than 700,000 bikes being formally shared through city bike-share programs worldwide.
As simply a point of reference, that’s about 34 bike-share bikes available for every Starbucks store in the world.
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CYCLODEO IN SAN FRANCISCO
Dutch start-up Cyclodeo has just released a new collection of geo-tagged bike route videos covering the city of San Francisco. The route videos build on an existing database that includes Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and New York City.
Like this one:
And here’s the video:
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Vancouver needs this!
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BEAUTY AND BETTER BIKERS
Bill Andrews points to a study that “shows statistically that attractiveness correlated positively with performance among cyclists who completed the 2012 Tour de France.” The idea behind the study:
Just get headshots of 80 male cyclists who finished the grueling Tour de France, put them up on www.fluidsurveys.com, and have people rate them on a scale of 1–5 (5 being the dreamiest). Then, compare the cyclists’ hot-or-not ratings with how they did in the race. …
The results were clear. The most attractive men were also, unbeknownst to raters, the riders that performed best. This correlation was strongest in women not on the pill. (The effect was about the same for women on it and men, interestingly enough.)
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