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Rolling down 120km of bike lane in Seville

('English language version of cafebabel.com',) — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:00:00 -0000

Drivers and vehicles in the centre of Seville cannot be parked for longer than 45 minutes, but it wouldn’t bother the southern Spanish city’s cyclists

5 bikes, 40 countries, 3 years: touring the world on two wheels

('English language version of cafebabel.com',) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:00:00 -0000

On 29 August, a group of Frenchmen in their mid-twenties kicked off a 50, 000 kilometre trip from Montpellier, and are somewhere on the Moroccan coast. Why would anyone do that...

Berlin craze: tourists shun sights for ‘Kiez’ experience

('Annie Rutherford',) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0000

The metropolis attracts more visitors than any other German city with almost 18 million overnight stays in 2008. But tourism is no longer about taking in the typical sights: tourists are now taking over ‘Kiez’ (city neighbourhoods) and bikes which, until now, were exclusively secrets for the capital’s residents

After JC Decaux’s Vélib’, 6, 000 bicycles for London

('Susannah Readett-Bayley',) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:00:00 -0000

Its recent success in the public bicycle market has led the French advertising giant into a race against competitors to secure the multiplying contracts popping up all over Europe

Velib: bicycle + freedom on city streets

('English language version of cafebabel.com',) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0000

The French capital has been enjoying the success of the Vélib’ adventure since summer 2007, and the urban rent-a-bicycle-for-next-to-nothing fever has caught the rest of Europe