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Photos from Baltimore's Bike to work day ride from light street
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Hummer, bike or something in between?


See this weeks online poll from the Baltimore Business Journal:

"Hummer not looking so attractive any more? Will gas prices influence your automobile purchases?"

Or do you ride a bike and take mass transit?

<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/poll/?poll_id=1021">http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/poll/?poll_id=1021</a>;
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It


After presentation by Carley Francis (City Planner) and letters of support from Planning, Transportation, Mayor

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BBC - Instructional/Training Ride Series for 2006


For anyone who wants to do the series, but missed the Orientation, we will meet with those who want a brief basic orientation 45 minutes early on the NCR trail ride next week (May 7th.)

The rides are free and open to all.


From the Baltimore Bicycling Club: WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN!! The BALTIMORE BICYCLING CLUB

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Matters of Scale


Bicycles per 1,000 people in the United States (mid-1990s)
385
In Germany
588
In the Netherlands
1,000
Percent of urban travel accounted for by cycling in the United States (1995)
1
Percent in Germany
12
Percent in the Netherlands
28
Percent of adults that are obese in the United States (2003)
30.6
Percent in Germany
12.9
Percent in the Netherlands
10.0
Total spending on health as percent of GDP in the United States (2002)
14.6
Percent in Germany
10.9
Percent in the Netherlands
8.8
Persons per hour that one meter-width-equivalent right-of-way can carry, by mode:
Auto in mixed traffic
170
Bicycle
1,500
Bus in mixed traffic
2,700
Pedestrian
3,600
Suburban railway
4,000
Energy used per passenger-mile (calories):
Auto
1,860
Bus
920
Rail
885
Foot
100
Bicycle
35

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BikeTown to give away 50 bikes in Baltimore!


<img width="115" height="120" align="left" src="http://www.baltimorespokes.org/images/articles/20060426194008847_1.gif" alt="">How Would the Gift of a Bike Change Your Life?
Baltimore has been named a Bicycling BikeTown!

Now entering its fourth year, BikeTown continues to bring the spirit of cycling to thousands of people nationwide. You

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Cycling team studies chocolate milk as recovery drink


<img width="160" height="120" align="left" src="http://www.baltimorespokes.org/images/articles/20060421213638129_1.jpg" alt="">by Sean Weide - University of Nebraska Medical Center

Chocolate milk might be a strong alternative to commercial sports drinks when it comes to helping athletes recover from strenuous, energy-depleting exercise. Those were the findings of some scientific -- and not-so-scientific -- research of chocolate milk when compared to commercial sports beverages.

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